| Steely Dan – Almost Gothic Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Sounds like an older white dude dating a young black girl for the first time. "I'm working on gospel time/I'm in the amen corner" - which may be references to black chruches. "love - I spell L U V" - like how a city girl from the hood would spell it out. "I hear her rap, and brother it's strong" - -maybe more reference to black culture? "Little Eva" a reference to Eva Boyd.... I don't know. I could be all wrong... |
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| Steely Dan – Negative Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is about a dude who has hooked up with a slightly nuts girl who is manipulating him, but he is entranced by her. This has happened to him before, and he sees what's happening: "it's happening again..." "I know she's ill, I'm cruising for a spill." / "..more of the same" She is troubled: "crying on the phone." Needy and manipulative: "I need you here/I'm on the street again." "her reptile brain already in combat mode." Mysterious: "some cash, a key, this guy she has to see" Although he knows she is negative, "deliciously toxic," "some hearts to crunch is her idea of fun," and though he even entertains the possibility that the whole affair is only "a goof, a buzz", he can't let go of her because of her wild, passionate antics: "dragging me out to dance with her in the summer rain." And her mystery: "I need to be in the heat of her cold white flame." My God, if this girl doesn't sound like someone with borderline personality disorder.... |
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