| Steely Dan – Bad Sneakers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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But why have we not addressed the 'fearsome excavation' and that 'ditch out in the valley that they're digging just for me'. I think he's a bit stressed. Paranoid. Homesick. He's laughing at his own paranoia and displacement. Bad sneakers and a pina colada are a happy memory. I like the upbeat and offbeat tone of the song. |
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| Steely Dan – Bad Sneakers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[FrailGrasp:4321] I like this interpretation. | |
| Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The album Aja was released in 1977. I'm thinking Fagen was only 30ish when he wrote this song. Nineteen was not that much younger. But at thirty they probably seem so. | |
| Steely Dan – Dr Wu Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I just see a guy waiting for Katy to get back with the drugs, and she never shows, cause she did them herself, or with someone else. | |
| Steely Dan – A Little With Sugar Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I like the way he sets the mood with the cold and the 'Mt. Savage, as if it mattered'. Then he brings in this flash of color and describes her in the most winsome and infatuated tones. |
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| Steely Dan – A Little With Sugar Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think the mother died, and a nurse came and stayed with them in her 'showboat style', and she was hip to drugs, 'first generation', this was probably the 50's. And the writer had a crush on her. And she pinched the money from the father. | |
| Steely Dan – More To Come Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| i think a lot of these early songs were about drugs | |
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