Interesting that the version on the "Old Regime" album has a different second verse.
My sentry trembles - He knows the end is coming.
His face is scowling - inside he's on his knees.
If looks and dreams could surely kill - he'd soon be gone from here.
Brooklyn owes the charmer under me.
I assumed that the singer was a drug dealer - who else would have a "sentry" (bodyguard or lookout, scared of something), a dish of dollars, and "aces" done up lose for dealing. I wonder if Fagan "cleaned up" the song by replacing the "sentry", with a movie queen. Then again the "sentry" could simply be a doorman.
Interesting that the version on the "Old Regime" album has a different second verse.
My sentry trembles - He knows the end is coming. His face is scowling - inside he's on his knees. If looks and dreams could surely kill - he'd soon be gone from here. Brooklyn owes the charmer under me.
I assumed that the singer was a drug dealer - who else would have a "sentry" (bodyguard or lookout, scared of something), a dish of dollars, and "aces" done up lose for dealing. I wonder if Fagan "cleaned up" the song by replacing the "sentry", with a movie queen. Then again the "sentry" could simply be a doorman.
@austinbarry thanks for sharing that verse. I also heard it on the best of Walter and Don album.
@austinbarry thanks for sharing that verse. I also heard it on the best of Walter and Don album.
@austinbarry thanks for sharing that verse. I also heard it on the best of Walter and Don album.
@austinbarry thanks for sharing that verse. I also heard it on the best of Walter and Don album.