Slang Of Ages Steely Dan

for real Drop me off in Groovetime Do you hear the Slang of Ages Show me how it's done Now did you say you were from the Netherlands Or was that "Netherworld"?

BOOK OF LIARS Steely Dan

BOOK OF LIARS Bye and bye now We'll get over The things we've done and the things we said But not just now when I can 't remember Exactly what it was I thought we had 'Cause I waited so long

CAVES OF ALTAMIRA Steely Dan

CAVES OF ALTAMIRA I recall when I was small How I spent my days alone The busy world was not for me So I went and found my own I would climb the garden wall With a candle in my hand I'd hide

west of hollywood Steely Dan

west of hollywood (8:21) Brother in tears Look at this chain of sorrows Stretching all the way from here and now to hell and gone I was Kid Clean She was Anne de Siecle Just a thrill away from

jack of speed Steely Dan

jack of speed (6:19) Teddy's rolling now most every night Skatin' backwards at the speed of light He's changed - in a thousand little ways He's changed - yes indeed You know he's movin' on metal

Godwhacker Steely Dan

In the beginning We could hang with the dude But it's been too much of nothing Of that stank attitude Now they curse your name And there's a bounty on your face It's your own fault daddy GodWhacker's on

THE ROYAL SCAM Steely Dan

THE ROYAL SCAM And they wandered in From the city of St.

THIS MOODY BASTARD Steely Dan

THIS MOODY BASTARD Little friend of mine Can you still recall Our salad days Between the ivy walls? Beneath the autumn sun?

BROOKLYN (OWES THE CHARMER UNDER ME) Steely Dan

BROOKLYN (OWES THE CHARMER UNDER ME) A race of angels Bound with one another A dish of dollars Laid out for all to see A tower room at Eden Rock His golf at noon for free Brooklyn owes the charmer

Parker's Band Steely Dan

Savoy Sides presents a new saxaphone sensation; It's Parker's band with a smooth style of syncopation. Kansas City born and growin', you won't believe what the boys are blowin'.

negative girl Steely Dan

smoke I stare into my coke It's happening again I tell myself that it's over and done, amen Her skin - like milk It's like she's never seen the sun Some hearts to crunch Is more like her idea of

DOWN IN THE BOTTOM Steely Dan

and well That little habit that you left with me Here in the suburbs where it's hard to tell If I got the bear or if the bear got me How did you know that it would take me down Down to the bottom of

Pixeleen Steely Dan

Our man Abu squeezes off twenty tracer rounds And that's when she jumps the turnstile And as she clings to the roof of the speeding train The Double A down to Sheridan Square Her cell phone rings It's,

GIRLFRIEND Steely Dan

GIRLFRIEND Alone in my cave It's corn flakes and Camels And the long restless shadows of my life None but the brave Jim Beam and Jack Daniels Channelhopping these empty days and nights Glued

BLACK COW Steely Dan

BLACK COW In the corner Of my eye I saw you in Rudy's You were very high You were high It was a cryin' disgrace They saw your face On the counter By your keys Was a book of numbers And

TIME OUT OF MIND Steely Dan

TIME OUT OF MIND Son you better be ready for love On this glory day This is your chance to believe What I've got to say Keep your eyes on the sky Put a dollar in the kitty Don't the moon look

PEARL OF THE QUARTER Steely Dan

PEARL OF THE QUARTER On the water down in New Orleans My baby's the pearl of the quarter She's a charmer like you never seen Singing voulez vous Where the sailor spend his hard-earned pay Red

KING OF THE WORLD Steely Dan

KING OF THE WORLD Hello one and all Was it you I used to know Can't you hear me call On this old ham radio All I got to say I'm alive and feeling fine If you come my way You can share my poison

CHANGE OF THE GUARD Steely Dan

CHANGE OF THE GUARD If you listen you can hear it It's the laughter in the street It's the motion in the music And the fire beneath your feet All the signs are right this time You don't have

Reelin' In The Years Steely Dan

Your everlastin'' summer, you can see it fadin'' fast, So you grab a piece of somethin'' that you think is gonna last Well, you wouldn''t even know a diamond if you held it in your hand The things

Blues Beach Steely Dan

I was scrapin' bottom Gropin' in the dark It takes a crusty punk to really beat The mean streets of Medicine Park So I shifted left for out of town Then I clicked my heels and I doubled down to Blues Beach

Don't Take Me Alive Steely Dan

Agents of the law Luckless pedestrian I know you're out there With rage in your eyes and your megaphones Saying all is forgiven Mad Dog surrender How can I answer A man of my mind can do anything [Chorus

SURF AND/OR DIE Steely Dan

to Johnny boy just picked up your message 'Bout those Balinese ikats you thought I might buy Now your voice on my machine is more alive than what you are Since your daredevil hang glider fell out of

DEACON BLUES Steely Dan

DEACON BLUES This is the day Of the expanding man That shape is my shade There where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday I gazed through the glass At ramblers Wild gamblers That's

ROSE DARLING Steely Dan

ROSE DARLING Rose darling come to me Snake Mary's gone to bed All our steaming sounds of love Cannot disturb her in her night Or raise her sleeping head All I ask of you Is make my wildest dreams

almost gothic Steely Dan

almost gothic (4:10) I'm working on gospel time these days (The summer - this could be the cool part of the summer) The sloe-eyed creature in the reckless room she's so severe A wise child walks

THE NIGHTFLY Steely Dan

THE NIGHTFLY I'm Lester the Nightfly Hello Baton Rouge Won't you turn your radio down Respect the seven second delay we use So you say there's a race Of men in the trees You're for tough legislation

JUNKIE GIRL Steely Dan

JUNKIE GIRL In the good old bad part of this college town Men in business suits they run you down You take their money just like you take mine You send it bubbling down the thin blue line It doesn't

Everything Must Go Steely Dan

It's high time for a walk on the real side Let's admit the bastards beat us I move to dissolve the corporation In a pool of margaritas So let's switch off all the lights And light up all the Luckies Crankin

BODHISATTVA Steely Dan

BODHISATTVA Bodhisattva Would you take me by the hand Bodhisattva Would you take me by the hand Can you show me The shine of your Japan The sparkle of your china Can you show me Bodhisattva

GREEN EARRINGS Steely Dan

GREEN EARRINGS Cold, daring No flies on me Sorry, angel I must take what I see Green earrings I remember The rings of rare design I remember The look in your eyes I don't mind Greek medallion

SPRINGTIME Steely Dan

SPRINGTIME Here at Laughing Pines Where the party never ends There's a spicy new attraction On the Funway You can scan yourself For traces of old heartaches The details of desire Shimmering

HAT TOO FLAT Steely Dan

HAT TOO FLAT We come in on the morning scan All the way from far Arcturus Bringing with us peace and good will From the margins of space and time Our women are slung down low to the ground They're

FLORIDA ROOM Steely Dan

FLORIDA ROOM Start on Key Plantain Walk a tropical mile You'll see a house In the Spanish style There's a room in back With a view of the sea Where she sits and dreams Does she dream of me

Rikki Don't Lose That Number Steely Dan

We hear you're leaving, that's ok I thought our little wild time had just begun I guess you kind of scared yourself, you t urn and run But if you have a change of heart Rikki, don't lose that number

two against nature Steely Dan

and that whole crew Across the lobby the wicker wing chair flew All the nice people those goodly souls Quaking in their respective hidey-holes Everyone's wasted in this gruesome dream Not a one of

TRANS-ISLAND SKYWAY Steely Dan

TRANS-ISLAND SKYWAY I was born yesterday When they brought my Kamakiri When they handed me the keys It's a steam-power 10 The frame is out of Glasgow The tech is Balinese It's not a freeway

gaslighting abbie Steely Dan

That might be just the thing Let's say we spike it with Deludin Or else - maybe tonight a hand of solitaire CHORUS: Flame is the game The game we call gaslighting Abbie It's a luscious invention

JOSIE Steely Dan

park in the street Sleep on the beach and make it Throw down the jam till the girls say when Lay down the law and break it When Josie comes home When Josie comes home So good She's the pride of

DR WU Steely Dan

DR WU Katy tried I was halfway crucified I was on the other side Of no tomorrow You walked in And my life began again Just when I'd spent the last piaster I could borrow All night long We

KINGS Steely Dan

Now they lay his body down Sad old men who run this town I still recall the way He led the charge and saved the day Blue blood and rain I can hear the bugle playin' CHORUS: We seen the last of

MIDNIGHT CRUISER Steely Dan

For one more time Let your madness run with mine Streets still unseen we'll find somehow No time is better than now CHORUS: Tell me where are you driving Midnight cruiser Where is your bounty Of

BABYLON SISTERS Steely Dan

BABYLON SISTERS 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

THE GOODBYE LOOK Steely Dan

THE GOODBYE LOOK The surf was easy on the day I came to stay On this quiet island in the bay I remember a line of women all in white The laughter and the steel bands at night Now the Americans

HEY NINETEEN Steely Dan

HEY NINETEEN Way back when In Sixty-seven I was the dandy Of Gamma Chi Sweet things from Boston So young and willing Moved down to Scarsdale Where the hell am I Hey Nineteen No we can't dance

DIRTY WORK Steely Dan

DIRTY WORK Times are hard You're afraid to pay the fee So you find yourself somebody Who can do the job for free When you need a bit of lovin' Cause your man is out of town That's the time you

MAXINE Steely Dan

we're much too young Tell us to stop before we've begun We've got to hold out till graduation Try to hang on Maxine While the world is sleeping We meet at Lincoln Mall Talk about life the meaning of

NEW FRONTIER Steely Dan

NEW FRONTIER Yes we're gonna have a wingding A summer smoker underground It's just a dugout that my dad built In case the reds decide to push the button down We've got provisions and lots of beer

what a shame about me Steely Dan

would be What a shame about me She said, talk to me, do you ever see Anybody else from our old crew Bobby Dakine won the Bunsen Prize Now he's coming out with something new Alan owns a chain of

WALK BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS Steely Dan

we hit the causeway by the big hotel We fought Now I can't remember why After all the words were said and tears were gone We vowed we'd never say goodbye When we kissed we could hear the sound of