Time Out of Mind Lyrics

Lyric discussion by hayes6 

Cover art for Time Out of Mind lyrics by Steely Dan

A song about smoking heroin. Lasa is a city in Tibet, where there's lots of "snow", i.e. heroin.

So for all of you Steely Dan fans let me clarify what the song time of of mind means. Donalkd and Walterare from my era in time and i love them as musicians and people.They are truly and gifted musicians. i had the please to meet them and have a picture of me with Roger Nichols if you know who he is. TYime out of mind is about a few ways to use Heroin. First we all know what chasing the dragon is. You put some smack on a piece of aluminum foil and then when it burns the silver will...

@hayes6 Ok, so I also replied to the OP on this, but "snow" which is obviously coke, in this case has been to possibly be crack cocaine, and here is why. YES chasing the dragon has traditionally meant smoking China White...heroin. YES Walter Becker had a massive heroin addiction. But they had just started doing crack with L.A. Laker Magic Johnson for which the other track Showtime was written.