Black Cow Lyrics

Lyric discussion by BigBee 

Cover art for Black Cow lyrics by Steely Dan

I don’t know why but I always think of the movie Klute. Fonda is a hooker and Donald Sutherland befriends her while trying to catch a killer. They fall in love and she wants to go straight, but she goes back to her pimp. He sees them together and Fonda is really high embracing her pimp. Sutherland’s expression in this scene is what I think of when I hear this song. She goes back to him only when she needs to be comforted and protected, but she can’t leave the hookers life.

My Interpretation
Negative
Subjective
Sadness
Nostalgia
Relationships
Inner_conflict
Dependency
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