Like most of the songs included on "The Nightfly", I think the key to this song is included in the liner notes: They represent the fantasies of a young man more or less matching Fagen's description growing up in the 'remote suburbs' during the late fifties , early sixites.
That said, the song follows the fantasies of a boy playing in a dugout bomb shelter his father has built. He dreams of being there with 60's model Tuesday Weld listening to the jazz of Brubeck.
There's a youthful notion that the singer and Tuesday will repopulate the planet and face the "New Frontier".
Like most of the songs included on "The Nightfly", I think the key to this song is included in the liner notes: They represent the fantasies of a young man more or less matching Fagen's description growing up in the 'remote suburbs' during the late fifties , early sixites. That said, the song follows the fantasies of a boy playing in a dugout bomb shelter his father has built. He dreams of being there with 60's model Tuesday Weld listening to the jazz of Brubeck.
There's a youthful notion that the singer and Tuesday will repopulate the planet and face the "New Frontier".