What do steely dan songs mean

Charlie Freak. Come Back Baby. Cousin Dupree. Deacon Blues. Dirty Work. Do It Again. Doctor Wu. Don't Let Me In.

Dont Take Me Alive. Dr Wu. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo. Everyone's Gone to the Movies. Everything Must Go. Everything You Did. Fire In The Hole. FM No Static at All. Gaslighting Abbie. Glamour Profession. Green Book. Green Earrings.

Green Flower Street. Haitian Divorce. Here At The Western World. Hey Nineteen. Home At Last. I Can't Function. I Got The News. Ida Lee. Jack of Speed. Janie Runaway. Junkie Girl. Kid Charlemagne. Kind Spirit. King of the World. Let George Do It. Lunch With Gina. Midnight Cruiser. Mock Turtle Song. Monkey In Your Soul.

Mood Indigo. More To Come. My Old School. My Rival. My Waterloo. Negative Girl. Night By Night. Oh Wow It's You Again. Old Regime. A certain kind of mind-fucking, where the method by which this was accomplished was by manipulating the physical reality in such a way that the person would be cold all the time, or by lowering the gaslights all the time making it so that the rooms were getting darker and darker.

That sort of thing. Stealing clothes and things like that. Or denying that something happened that actually did happen. Everybody there, just about, was a beatnik, except for the people who were in the religion department. Then this website is for you!

You're looking at an A-Z glossary of over obscure words, people and places — all taken from the lyrics of Steely Dan songs. The creative genii behind Steely Dan Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have long been fond of peppering their lyrics with arcane literary and cultural references, the meaning of which can be murky at best given the duo's legendary reticence. After searching in vain for an explanatory lexicon, I decided to create my own — the result being this website, which was first launched in June