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Steely Dan Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Katz suggested that Becker and Fagen form a band as a way to record their songs, and Steely Dan -- who took their name from a dildo in William Burroughs' Naked ...
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Steely Dan - BarryTown Lyrics
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It's about prejudice. It's an allegorical story that's really about white folks who pretend to be friendly with minorities but in reality they are as prejudiced ...
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Steely Dan - Dr Wu Lyrics
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The song represents an epiphany of the singer that everyone suffers some sort of adfictive tendencies. Specifically, the realization that the person who helped ...
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Steely Dan - Almost Gothic Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Steely Dan - Negative Girl Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - Through With Buzz Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - Godwhacker Lyrics
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A couple of days later, I started writing a lyric for this song "Godwhacker," which Walter and I completed and recorded for a Steely Dan CD. It's about an elite ...
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Steely Dan - The Royal Scam Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - Night By Night Lyrics
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This song is about a bum's life. The lyrics are self explanatory. It starts out telling you it's about a bum, or at least a "poor man". ... When he says "But ...
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Steely Dan - Green Earrings Lyrics
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DF gives us a clue that's usually overlooked. The line is: "Sorry, angel I get hungry like a child" Who gets hungry like a child? A junkie! This song is about a ...
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Steely Dan - Jack of Speed Lyrics
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In a larger sense, this song suggests that people can throw themselves & their lives away in service to any malicious slave driver, be it drugs, religion, ...
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Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Steely Dan - Aja Lyrics
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The song refers also to getting away from the material world, dime dancing (work) and returning to the mytho-poetic land of Aja. It's not Asia in particular, ...
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Steely Dan - Chain Lightning Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Steely Dan - Fire In The Hole Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - Glamour Profession Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - Peg Lyrics
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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 ...
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Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Lyrics
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The pretzel logic to this verse is the fact that Correll and Gosden, smart, professional white men, made a fortune playing naive, less than professional black ...
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Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth Lyrics
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It's about high-stakes casino gambling. The "killing floor" is the gaming tables. Gold teeth are dice. The woman he's singing about is a gambler, gold-digger, ...
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Steely Dan - Do It Again Lyrics
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The song is about addiction. It uses 3 examples: addictions to anger, sex and gambling. They probably avoided a drug or alcohol reference in order to drive the ...
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Steely Dan - Rose Darling Lyrics
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It's fairly obviously about sex and seducing a woman, wile using some incredibly crass euphemisms like their "steamy sounds of love", "make my wildest dreams ...
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Steely Dan - With A Gun Lyrics
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This is about a crooked man who started a medical clinic with his friend but he became crooked and stole money from the clinic. His friend caught him and was ...
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Steely Dan - Third World Man Lyrics
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This song is about a little kid playing...pretending he's a soldier. He'll throw down his disguise when he finishes, 'when the sidewalks are safe for the little ...
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Steely Dan - Home At Last Lyrics
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It is simply about Walter and Donald wanting to get out of LA. I counldnt imagine why!!LOL!! people from Ca are pompous asses. They are new yorkers;and Walter ...
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Steely Dan - Razor Boy Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Steely Dan - The Boston Rag Lyrics
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The "Boston Rag" reference I see as a reference to ragtime jazz music, which symbolises an earlier, more innocent/hopeful time - ie, back when Lonnie was a ...
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Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number Lyrics
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granatino.com/sdresource/9lyrics.htm according to one of the songwriters, the lyrics are to be taken literally, it's a a song about a guy asking a girl not to ...
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Steely Dan - The Caves of Altamira Lyrics
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This song is about early man's call to be creative and expressive. He talks how early in life he recognizes that "Busy world was not for me so I went & found my ...
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Steely Dan - The Fez Lyrics
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Fez on sounds exactly like faison in French, which means "do it", so the song becomes "don't make me do it without the do it" - but in the colloquial French it ...
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Steely Dan - Only A Fool Would Say That Lyrics
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To me this song is about point of view and one man's utopia is another man's hell and that everything has a price or consequence, no such thing as " a world ...
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Steely Dan - Lunch With Gina Lyrics
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Lunch with Gina…is forever, because this is a classic SD song about drug withdrawal, and the formidable symptoms following him everywhere he goes until he ...
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Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - West of Hollywood Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Steely Dan - Dirty Work Lyrics
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The song's about a guy who is the man she cheats on her husband with (when he's out of town, she lights a candle for romance, sends the maid home early), and ...
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Steely Dan - Everything You Did Lyrics
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Its retribution sex with a cheating wife...forced to tell hubby every last detail....shouting and screaming...and then he finally fucks her, demanding that she ...
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Steely Dan - Bodhisattva Lyrics
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Bodhisattva literally stands for "wisdom-being", i think this song is about a man or woman who is looking for their own enlightenment. "Take me by the hand" ( ...
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Steely Dan - Green Book Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Steely Dan - Cousin Dupree Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II Lyrics
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The chorus is just taking what you have, "your gold teeth" and tossing them out to see what happens. "Unreal" was a common hipster superlative in the '60's.
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Steely Dan - Deacon Blues Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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Steely Dan - Monkey In Your Soul Lyrics
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I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his ...
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Steely Dan - Black Cow Lyrics
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The song Black Cow is about Walter Becker's drug habit, and Fagen wrote the song to his friend, Becker. It's widely known that Fagan and Becker brought in ...
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Steely Dan - Two Against Nature Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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Steely Dan - Blues Beach Lyrics
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This song is about going into rehab and drug withdrawal (this was pointed out by an astute individual on the fever dreams website - it may be archived somewhere ...
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Steely Dan - Dont Take Me Alive Lyrics
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A disturbed young man kills his father and goes on the run. The authorities close in; desperate, he takes a hostage and barricades himself. During the stand-off ...
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Steely Dan - Pixeleen Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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Steely Dan - Time Out of Mind Lyrics
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TIME OUT OF MIND IS ABOUT SHOOTING AND SMOKING HEROIN PERIOD. WHEN YOU SMOKE IT THE ALUMINUM FOIL TURNS A GOLD COLOR.WHEN YOU SHOOT IT AND CLEAN THE SYRINGE IN ...
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Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce Lyrics
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The woman goes alone in the story at the request of her father to get a quickee divorce in Haiti. She of course fails in that mission, but has an affair there ...
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Steely Dan - My Rival Lyrics
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18 Comments ... This song is about a father's newborn son. The son is the father's "Rival" for the wife/mother's affections. "Milk truck" is the mother's breast.
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Steely Dan - FM (No Static at All) Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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