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| Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's about high-stakes casino gambling. The "killing floor" is the gaming tables. Gold teeth are dice. The woman he's singing about is a gambler, gold-digger, maybe prostitute, and tries to seduce rich guys in the casino. And yeah, the music is just amazing. |
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| Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth II Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Throwing out your gold teeth is a reference to fortunetelling. Mystics have used tea leaves, bones, cards and dice since time immemorial. The other referent for the gold teeth is dice, as in gambling, of course -- "you" is the old guy who runs the dice game. (They'll cover your action... and also If you're feeling lucky... and It's your game...) So it's basically about gambling, luck and mysticism.
Now how does the first verse fit in? The most amazing first verse perhaps in all of songdom? I have no frickin' idea. It's just so cool they had to put it in. But to get analytical, I guess it's about the kids who seem to fly compared to the earthbound oldster with the gold teeth. |
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| Steely Dan – Rose Darling Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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First, it's definitely a drug song. "Only you and what I found" is key to that. The Dan is never so obvious as to make the song about the surface meaning (sex), although all the double entendres make it all that much better.
Second, the posted lyric is wrong: it's "the spoor is on the wind tonight" which is a hunting/tracking reference and actually makes sense, as opposed to "spore". (Again, drugs and sex both work with that reference).
And if you listen carefully, he definitely says Snake Mary, not Saint Mary (though that would make sense from a lyric perspective). |
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