| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| i see most of these comments of reading way to much into the great Fagen and Becker's lyrics. hey look i think the Dan, i.e. becker and fagen are timeless. and i've heard really a sympathetic pair of humans. I heard fagan say once he sometimes finds scandalous news articles and writes about them, changing names to protect the innocent and his ass too, lol. yes many of their songs use symbolic, idiomatic and slang terminology, but not much in this one. Becker and Fagan are great at putting scandalous lyrics to beautiful music. and songs like any major dude, any world, Caves of Altimira are very sympathetic to the human condition. Song writers often don't write songs from their own perspective but from another persons perspective. and if donald wrote from his own perspective in "hey 19", so what, she's legal. and the song is about a desire for a much younger woman. i hear nothing in it about a consummation. | |
| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Merbered:5881] oh please, lol. oh i get it you always wanted to be a narc, lol. the most important excerpt from the lyric "we've got your skinny girls" and skinny girl mean a syringe to mainline heroin or whatever substance i have never heard on the streets. | |
| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[LucklessPedestrian:5880] and the "we got your skinny girls" imho is reference to an under age house of prostitution. fagen and becker are referring to mostly older men here. We reach middle age and our lives become more one of drudgery, a nagging or in these days and ex wife, and most of all we fall our mortality slipping away. The Lolita complex or desire becomes quite strong. For most men its not about aesthetics, beauty, but through sex with a lively naive and willing to be dominated minor we think that will kick us out of the funk. best to fantasize, jerk off to those naked beauties from russia and the ukraine who are over 18 but are chosen because they are slender. if not well you know what they say 14 will get you 20(years in the slammer) | |
| Steely Dan – The Caves of Altamira Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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any of the symbolic words and phrases are secondary in this "dan" song. the song is about the wonder of prehistory, history and man's(gender neutral as it always has been)instinct for creating art, no doubt also making primitive sounds from voice or taking a stick or more and pounding on a surface, as music too. any world, any major dude, caves of Altimira are from that small group of the least cynnical of fagen and becker's songs. no, cynicism is not a value judgment. Just think "Diogenes". the ancient greek philospher "dog" was not cynnical towards society because he was a misanthrope, no it was he cared about human beings. dahszil dahszil male planet earth |
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