Steely Dan – Any World (That I'm Welcome To)

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  General Comment:Any world will do

  Flag tpksummerson March 04, 2012   Link

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  Song Meaning:I really like Steely Dan - this is a wonderful band, and this is one of their best songs.
  for a change, I think this song has more optimistic point of view.
  the singer is presenting his place in life( not necessarily a bad place) and say that whatever he is going to do, its going to be better. There is nothing more optimistic then that. Every choice that he is going that he is going to take, will be better choice than before, every move will be better than before - the writer is getting better, any reality that he is going choose by his decesion("any world that i am welcome too"), will make him a stronger, more experience man.
  Loooooove this song

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  General Comment:Beautiful song about searching for meaning in the face of alienation. The singer is determined to find happiness and believes it is possible, even though he has suffered. Maybe existentialist.

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  General Comment:If this song had somehow magically materialized in the discography of some sincere plodder like, oh, Bruce Springsteen, or Bob Seger, or Southside Johnny, or Bon Jovi, it would have reached iconic anthem status, the kind where a song is trotted out and sung along to for particular occasions like, um, graduations for people who didn't attend the graduation? Or, uh, the party kids throw the night before they run away from home? Hmm, maybe, uh, mass suicides? Ah, never mind. Great song, though, taken on its face, which nobody wants to do because nobody trusts the Dan.

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  Song Meaning:Perhaps it was a song written earlier in his youth that was too painful to sing at the time. The Wikipedia page on DF talks about a traumatic family move from Passaic to Fair Lawn, NJ, which he hated. Definitely has an element of teen angst to it, certainly that I recall from those years...
  

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  General Comment:I think this song is a rarity for SD - a straightforward song (or there's a double meaning which I don't get). Basically the singer is longing for a better place and a new start in life. Perhaps he wants to return to an imaginary family or community that he was never part of.

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  General Comment:It's probably been thirty years since I first heard this music. I did not understand or pay much attention to the lyrics then. I just enjoyed the soothing communality of the music. And today the same music paints my memory of that time with color, and the lyrics have more meaning with the perspective that comes from living. No, things are never perfect or without pain, but it helps to get with the relativity of things. The larger picture's been definitely worth it for me, in many many ways.

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  General Comment:the words of this song strike me to the very core; it makes me wonder why I'm still alive

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  General Comment:I gotta get outta here....

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