Random Steely Dan Lyrics

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…FM

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I would love to tour the southland
In a traveling minstrel show

Yes we’re gonna have a wingding
A summer smoker underground
It’s just a dugout that my dad built
In case the Reds decide to push the button down

(Yes, I know it’s from The Nightfly, but if you didn’t know it was from a Donald Fagen solo album you would swear it was Steely Dan song).

I heard it was you
Talkin’ 'bout a world where all is free
It just couldn’t be, and only a fool would say that

Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same

When the demon is at your door
In the morning it won’t be there no more
Any major dude will tell you

When Black Friday comes I’ll stand down by the door
And catch all the grey men as they dive from the fourteenth floor.

You been tellin’ me you’re a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I’ve known you
I still don’t know what you mean

Hush brother, we cross the square
Act natural, like you don’t care
Turn slowly and comb your hair
Don’t trouble the midnight air
We’re standing just where he stood
It was chain lightning
It feels so good

No marigolds in the promised land
There’s a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

Do you take me for a fool?
Do you think that I don’t see
That ditch out in the valley that they’re digging just for me

The girls don’t seem to care tonight
As long as the mood is right

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In the corner of my eye
I saw you in Rudy’s
You were very high

You been tellin’ me you’re a genius since you were seventeen
In all the time I’ve known you I still don’t know what you mean
The weekend in the college didn’t turn out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand

So fine, so young. (Tell me I’m the only one.)

Down at the Lido they welcome you
With sausage and beer,
Klaus and the Rooster have been there too,
But lately he spends his time here.

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I saw Boz not too long ago, doing old and new stuff. Definitely worth the ticket price.

Bodhisattva, I’m gonna sell my house in town