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| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics
| 29 days ago
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@[Merbered:54959] Steely Dan generally doesn't refer directly to characters by name. They create mythical ones that are loosely based on real ones (like Kid Charlemagne being based on Owsley Stanley). I've seen this interpretation on reddit (and by another poster here) and it just seems way off base to me. I've been around awhile never heard the term 'skinny girl' referred to in a drug use context. As I said above, sometimes the simplest interpretation is the correct one. It seems pretty obvious this is about a high class brothel they're referring to as The Western World, which would unlikely be a real place and any similarity to a real place would be coincidence. A sailor 'blacked out on the stairs' from either drugs or alcohol would hardly be surprising around such an establishment. The brothel is a place where everyone (including the mayor and all his friends) can go to let it all hang out and get away from it all, get out of the rain, whatever, and consort with attractive skinny hookers. Anything beyond that is reading way too much into this, at least to me. |
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| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics
| 29 days ago
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@[Thedevilyouno:54958] I saw a similar interpretation of this song on Reddit, not sure if that was you, but same exact references to drugs, etc. I think this is an over-interpretation of the meaning of these lyrics. I think it's pretty obvious this is about a brothel where people (including the mayor and all his friends) can go to forget about everything/get out of the rain and consort with hot skinny girls. Sometimes the most obvious explanation is the correct one. Not saying I have any special knowledge about this, but the drug references seem a bridge too far, at least to me. |
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