What A Shame About Me Lyrics

Lyric discussion by GeoJoe1000 

Cover art for What A Shame About Me lyrics by Steely Dan

"And make believe we're back at our old school"

Is this a reference to My Old School from Countdown to Ecstasy?

@GeoJoe1000 I don't believe so. The narrator talks about he and Franny being at NYU. The Strand book store is in lower Manhattan near NYU. My Old School refers to Bard College up the Hudson River where Fagan and Becker matriculated but didn't graduate and, I believe, is also where they met.