Drive west on Sunset
To the sea
Turn that jungle music down
Just until we're out of town
This is no one night stand
It's a real occasion
Close your eyes and you'll be there
It's everything they say
The end of a perfect day
Distant lights from across the bay
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine, so young
Tell me I'm the only one
Here come those Santa Ana winds again
We'll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink Kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell
Well I should know by now
That it's just a spasm
Like a Sunday in T.J.
That it's cheap but it's not free
That I'm not what I used to be
And that love's not a game for three
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine, so young
Tell me I'm the only one
Here come those Santa Ana winds again
My friends say no don't go
For that cotton candy
Son you're playing with fire
The kid will live and learn
As he watches his bridges burn
From the point of no return
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine, so young
Tell me I'm the only one
To the sea
Turn that jungle music down
Just until we're out of town
This is no one night stand
It's a real occasion
Close your eyes and you'll be there
It's everything they say
The end of a perfect day
Distant lights from across the bay
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine, so young
Tell me I'm the only one
Here come those Santa Ana winds again
We'll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink Kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell
Well I should know by now
That it's just a spasm
Like a Sunday in T.J.
That it's cheap but it's not free
That I'm not what I used to be
And that love's not a game for three
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine, so young
Tell me I'm the only one
Here come those Santa Ana winds again
My friends say no don't go
For that cotton candy
Son you're playing with fire
The kid will live and learn
As he watches his bridges burn
From the point of no return
Babylon sisters shake it
Babylon sisters shake it
So fine, so young
Tell me I'm the only one
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Ummm... dudes.. dudettes...
Walter Becker has a penchant for... illegal fun.. under the sun.. and the age limit .. ? Hell-oooo..?? It's pedophilia.. The Babylon Sisters are ALL underage women. Probably 'sistas' as well in this particular case what w/references to Oakland and jungle music, but 'cotton candy'.. who eats cotton candy ? Kids.. and it's soft and sweet and melts in your mouth..sorry, I'm definitely not in the club it repulses me, but I'm just sayin'.. probably about dugee, too, but he's mixing his metaphors here, as well as his poisons.. son you're playing with fire, i.e. "15'll get you 20". Is this not just so obvious to anyone besides me ? How about Becker's classic quirky solo album, '11 tracks of whack' with the self-referential title referring to his mysteriously getting run over by a car after an underage girl died of OD in his house... he's one of the original nastees that we love, those brilliant and damned swine who continually test the levels of freedom that we hold dear, for all of us.. "but what about Walter?... what he does.. shouldn't society be protected ?.. I mean, brilliant or not..." last of the red-hot Dostoevsky-esque decadent wino-saints... "I know that the hypnotized never lie... do you (lie)?" Our freedoms aren't ours if we don't take them to the limit.. After I listen to a new Steely Dan album, once I've deciphered at least a few of the lines, I always feel like I need to take a shower, wash off the slime.. Then I'll go back and try to decipher the rest. 'Gaslighting Abbie' Ewwwwww.... I Love their music. I Hate their morals. In the end, I'm glad they exist...
Their morals?<br /> <br /> I don't want to sound like some 14 year olds who dropped acid for their first time writing paragraphs about how every thought is subjective; leaving you unconvinced. <br /> <br /> I'll take this approach - they played with accomplished black musicians and they play black music. Is it that difficult to imagine that they possessed some kind of relationship, maybe friendship with one of them?<br /> <br /> You watch the Aja interview the reverence they hold for Mr. Shorter. Look I've made scathing comments to people about race that target peoples insecurities. I know the train of thought how it's funny to you. And well if they aren't targeting anyone they're more moral to me. And I don't consider myself racist or immoral. I won't lose any sleep over it too, mathafucka
they're more moral than me. i go in for the kill when i'm drinking thinking like that. they just take that train of thought and write songs.<br /> <br /> oh black people do that too. they're not racist either. pussy.
there was supposed to be a * before they're more moral than me
last comment - when they do take it too far it's artistic and deliberate. in a way that can bother or impress you. either way it's enjoyable.<br /> <br /> in my experience the people who exist the characteristics that you are implying they posses would not press those on a record to the masses. you're entitled to your opinion but you missed an obvious part of steely dan. you're probably new to them.
I mean it's the only way they could do what they did with an open conscious. For example Anthony Keidis who is caught up in being a start and then he went to AA so they tell him to tell everyone he's a heroin addict. He writes a book about it that's humblebrag masturbation that brings people he encountered in his life down without regard for how it will affect them. <br /> <br /> If Donald and Walter drugs like they did in the 70s they would scoff at Keidis and his book.
@highlyselassie <br /> [Love their music. I Hate their morals]<br /> <br /> Ha ha -- YES. I totally agree. <br /> <br /> Imagine trying to explain to a 9 yr old what these guys are talking about in most of their songs. But they are lyricist's lyricists as well as musician's musicians. <br /> I feel guilt for loving SD as much as I do. Forgive me, Lord...
@highlyselassie Becker's longtime girlfriend who OD's was not underage. Her name appears in the credits of early Steely Dan albums so she was at least in her twenties, probably thirties. His getting hit by a taxi a year or so later was unrelated. I have no idea about his personal life except that by the early 80s he was married and had two kids.
@highlyselassie <br /> Oakland?