| Steely Dan – Gaslighting Abbie Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Minz:27701] I like it |
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| Steely Dan – Home At Last Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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It’s about an LSD trip...the super highway. He’s done it before and knows the ride that’s coming. He’s the lucky one who broke on through...and the tired sea song of Homer is a perfect metaphor for this trip, trying to get home...to the SOURCE...think of the Cosmic Wow later in West of Hollywood in Two Against Nature The danger is past...he’s gotten through those first turbulent waves of terror...home at last in spirit, having shed the hardware as he did back in Aja... Between drug waves, he enjoys a drink served by a lovely lady of the island...and then he’s back in his trip. |
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| Steely Dan – Gaslighting Abbie Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Gaslighting Abbie could be the musical muse. The first verse is her arrival, one plush summer. The musician and the muse share soul synergy and create beautiful work. It’s barely July...he’s still young and full of inspiration. Come Labor Day, the end of youth...bye bye...she leaves. How does he get her back? Tea/marijuana? Dilaudid? Solitaire/noodling around on the piano waiting for inspiration? Flame is the game...the muse is an elusive fire, seeming to toy with the musician. The invention for three...a trinity of muse/musician/song...or even DF and WB and the muse... The long weekend that’s coming up fast...death. Let’s get this work done. That black mini looks just like the one she’s been missing...the song he’s working on was missing that thing... now that the muse is here, it feels good on you, meaning the muse gives it that life. The song they’re creating together is Two Against Nature, hence the fright night...and the kitchen...check out the reference to the kitchen at the end of Two Against Nature, the song. It can also be the whole album, a sort of metafictional construct. The muse chooses the music...the musician sets up his gear...piano, recording equipment...to capture the moment. After they finish it, they get to watch the fireworks, the reaction by fans and critics, especially. How can you knock this mighty spite lock...the musician has persisted against all expectations and thoughts by the world that he was washed up and gone...the work itself has elegance and function. Because form follows function. A tweak or two of the recording...and once again, the muse is out of here...gaslighting the musician...was she ever really there? What was that? Am I crazy? |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Nice | |
| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[PhilipCubensis:27558] Yes |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Absolutely up on the hill to get LSD, throwing out the hardware, the instruments, the body itself, traveling through those psychedelic geometries and the very code of life itself...that’s a journey after dime dancing... Ironic in its references to eastern mysticism but trucking with those modes just as well. And like someone else said, it’s about the music itself. Outer layer is the story of a woman (women are often metaphors for drugs in SD music, think “Katie Lied” to get started and work your way up to “Almost Gothic”), next layer the story of the drug and the beautiful tropical land it takes you to, then a dual core of music/essence of life (the “cosmic wow” that shows up in “West of Hollywood”). All laced with irony but peeking into the mystery. I think what makes the Steely Dan Lyrics so rich is the way they keep adding to a sort of cut up narrative with recurring characters just with different names, a variety of funhouse masks and counter cultural archetypes: the loosers, the druggies, the hipsters, the seekers, and always musicians/artists/con artists... |
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