Lyric discussion by highlyselassie 

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?

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.

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?

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.

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

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