Pretzel Logic, a great song but the lyrics seem to have confused a few.
It is about TIME TRAVEL.
Donald Fagen, in an interview said, " I stepped on the platform / the man gave me the news - we conceived the 'platform' as a teleportation device"
"The man gave me the news" - the protagonist has looked at the date on a newspaper - different from the time he just left.
Fagen also said, " And there are other key lines like, 'I've never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time'. What we're actually saying is I plan to find the time that he lived in".
@LeatherCanary part of me feels like that may be his way of entertaining himself and maybe the song is really about nothing at all. Maybe they just wanted to write a song with this sound and just threw lyrics out with very little intention other than them seeming to grasp some concept the rest of us don’t. Maybe even spoofing themselves as NY Jews attempting to write this style blues song and this is all we could come up with.
@LeatherCanary part of me feels like that may be his way of entertaining himself and maybe the song is really about nothing at all. Maybe they just wanted to write a song with this sound and just threw lyrics out with very little intention other than them seeming to grasp some concept the rest of us don’t. Maybe even spoofing themselves as NY Jews attempting to write this style blues song and this is all we could come up with.
Pretzel Logic, a great song but the lyrics seem to have confused a few.
It is about TIME TRAVEL.
Donald Fagen, in an interview said, " I stepped on the platform / the man gave me the news - we conceived the 'platform' as a teleportation device"
"The man gave me the news" - the protagonist has looked at the date on a newspaper - different from the time he just left.
Fagen also said, " And there are other key lines like, 'I've never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time'. What we're actually saying is I plan to find the time that he lived in".
A great song.
@LeatherCanary part of me feels like that may be his way of entertaining himself and maybe the song is really about nothing at all. Maybe they just wanted to write a song with this sound and just threw lyrics out with very little intention other than them seeming to grasp some concept the rest of us don’t. Maybe even spoofing themselves as NY Jews attempting to write this style blues song and this is all we could come up with.
@LeatherCanary part of me feels like that may be his way of entertaining himself and maybe the song is really about nothing at all. Maybe they just wanted to write a song with this sound and just threw lyrics out with very little intention other than them seeming to grasp some concept the rest of us don’t. Maybe even spoofing themselves as NY Jews attempting to write this style blues song and this is all we could come up with.
I put nothing past them
I put nothing past them