Peg Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sammytag1 

Cover art for Peg lyrics by Steely Dan

This song is a re-assuring ballad written to a blind woman about her first professional bowling tournament where she's also healed from her blindness. The woman's name is of course Peg. Peg arrives at the lanes. Her picture and name in lights are on the TV, but she can't see them so she doesn't smile for the camera. They love it, because she's blind.

Then she starts to bowl. She has a good pin shot. She knocks down all the pins, and she smiles, because she can HEAR the pins fall. Then, shock. She's dismayed. She can't find the bowling ball. Peg. It will come back to you! Then, the shutter at the end of the lane falls, and she heals from her blindness, and sees the foreign world in 3-d for the first time, and it's like a movie.

My Interpretation

Hahaha!! Great interpretation!! Love your sense of humor :)

LMFAO! This cracked me up so bad! I was genuinely searching for the meaning of this song and yours was the very first interpretation I read! Honestly, at first I thought, "wtf!? Could it seriously have such a bizarre implication? (Yes, I know... My picture was once next to the word GULLIBLE in dictionaries, but I got so much taunting correspondence that the dictionary authors thought it best to remove my image to avoid any costly legalities. Ha... Ha... Ha...) Anyway - I'd love to smoke a bowl with you while listening to random songs and hearing your interpretation...

@sammytag1 That is one of the COOLEST song interpretations I have ever heard, hands down.