| Steely Dan – Jack of Speed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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| Steely Dan – Deacon Blues Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Dude, it looks like you put a great deal of thought into this and I don't want to rain on your parade, but you are soooo wrong! I'm just glad that Fagen will probably never read this, because he's likely to have a stroke, right after he gets done laughing himself sick. For what this song is really about I present an explanation straight from the horse's mouth, as it were: "Fagen has said that the narrator is a middle class suburban kid newly besotted by jazz and Beat culture, and indeed, listening carefully suggests just the sort of over-romantic naiveté and general cluelessness that one would expect from someone attracted to a lifestyle he does not yet understand. The great opening line of the chorus, "Learn to work the saxophone," suggests that he doesn't even have his verbs straight yet! " so says Stewart Mason, the reviewer of this song for All Music. The lines " drink Scotch whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel" is not a death wish or the ultimate end, it simply represents what this kid thinks this lifestyle is all about. It has been suggested that the "languid and bittersweet" voice of Fagen in this song is so emotional because he is remembering the teenage Fagen and Becker. Oh, and the libation thing....I was laughing fit to die up in here....dude.."libation, sensation" is just another reference to 2 of Fagen's favorite subjects...booze and sex. Please forgive the sarcasm but after 20 years of listening to Steely Dan, some of it has rather rubbed off. |
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