She's lost she's late
She's zooming on a couch somewhere
Or high or home
I'm not supposed to call her there

I wait I smoke
I stare into my coke
It's happening again
I tell myself that it's over and done amen

Her skin like milk
It's like she's never seen the sun
Some hearts to crunch
Is more like her idea of fun

I know she's ill
I'm cruising for a spill
I'm hanging just the same
I need to be in the heat
Of her cold white flame

[Chorus]
Another negative girl
At the edge of the frame
Deliciously toxic
The original classic thing, more of the same

She's in the zone
Crying on the phone
I need you here
I'm on the street again

Staggering out into the burn of the brain dead dawn
To arrive in time to find her gone

She's on the train
To somewhere up by Fordham Road
Her reptile brain
Locked down and ready in combat mode

Some cash, a key
This guy she has to see
A doctor friend uptown
And maybe she gets to me when she comes back down

[Chorus]

A goof, a buzz
If that is what it was
Then how do you explain
The way she looks when she's
Dragging me out to dance with her
In the summer rain

[Chorus]


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Negative Girl Lyrics as written by Walter Carl Becker Donald Jay Fagen

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    girl with a drug problem? yes....girl with a heroin problem? no....this girl is a coke/crack addict..."minor" clues would be 'zooming' (which is a rapid ascent), the description of her skin color (or lack there of), "doctor-friend uptown", "cold WHITE flame", et al...for me, though, the MAJOR clue is, at the very end, when he refers to her antics as "the original, classic thing"; a definite reference to Coke (-a-Cola)

    THEOTHR1on February 20, 2014   Link

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