| Boz Scaggs – Lowdown Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sorry - The first line should read "This CD is in my car..." |
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| Boz Scaggs – Lowdown Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This CD is my car and I play it over and over, ad infinitum. Boz Scaggs' songs never get old. I love them all. I think this song is about a man who is in some type of shady racket. He bought gifts for his girlfriend; and instead of keeping it on the "Lowdown," she's telling everyone she knows that her boyfriend "bought her this and that." The girl's continuous talking may put the boyfriend in jeopardy. If word got back to the unscrupulous people he works with/for, they could kill him. She thinks this guy is the answer to a prayer "...she must believe it's all heaven sent." His friend wonders how this girl knew to talk about the man's business, "Putting your business in the street" implying that he had been lying to her about how he came by his ill-gotten gains. The man's friend tells him to make his girlfriend stop talking: "Better bring the chick around" and give her "the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown." He's saying to tell the girl the truth: the money for the gifts was not made honestly. It seems like these two men go way back. One seems to be older, calling him "son" and referring to the apparent charm this guy has that can make a girl change her mind: "Turn on that ole love light and turn a maybe to a yes. Same old schoolboy game got you into this mess." He is advising this younger man to live a better, more decent life. "Come on back down to earth, son." He doesn't need Everything that Everyone else has: "...Jones for this Jones for that..." He wonders who is responsible for the way this young man is living his life. "Who got you thinking like that boy." Living life in the fast lane is going to take its toll. The dirty lowdown is just truth, plain and simple. |
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