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In the corner Of my eye I saw you in rudys 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 your remedies One of these Surely will screen out the sorrow But where are you tomorrow
I cant cry anymore While you run around Break away Just when it Seems so clear That its Over now Drink your big black cow And get out of here
Down to greene street There you go Lookin so outrageous And they tell you so You should know How all the pros play the game You change your name
Like a gangster On the run You will stagger homeward To your precious one Im the one Who must make everything right Talk it out till daylight
I dont care anymore Why you run around Break away Just when it Seems so clear That its Over now Drink your big black cow And get out of here
This is an old Steely Dan song I came across that brings back memories in more ways than one. Hope I can just "look back but don't stare" so I can keep on movin' on. :) ......jaja
I love this.....My ex A is a huge Steely Dan fan......these lyrics feed the bitter part of me right now and it feels sorta hard to accept that. Even tho he has been sober 7 months...the "book of numbers and remedies to screen out the sorrow" was still his way and it left me out and made me sad and I was left talking to myself till I was blue in the face all night...he never needed to talk it out...he was coping by running around....using or sober.
I am thankful that the break happened and that he is out of here. I read lyrics like this and the old pain stirs .....and I want to email this to him and say #$^$#@.....but I don't....and I breathe and I focus on the positive parts of my life that I want to feed. I hand him and his ways and the pain and the feeling this song stirs over to my higher power.
This song, and all the others from that album (AJA) run pretty deep in my psyche. Mainly reminding me of MY early drinking days. These songs got lots of airplay in late 1977 through mid 1978. I was working my first "real" job, out of town a lot... spent a lot of time by myself in bars. Most of my drinking life after that, I was a stay-at-home drunk, but in those days I was never home.
There's also some great saxophone playing on that album!
Especially 'Deacon Blues' Learned to work the saxophone... At that time, I was trying to impress a guy (who I thought quite sophisticated) by trying to develop a taste for Scotch (his drink). Thus, 'Deacon Blues' became my anthem ('drink Scotch whiskey all night long...') Didn't stop to think that if you have to 'develop a taste' for something, YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE DRINKING IT!!! Man, young, stupid and of legal age is a dangerous combination! Marion
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Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit ("Bidden or not bidden, God is present") - Erasmus
Especially 'Deacon Blues' Learned to work the saxophone...
Donald Fagen wrote Deacon Blues as a lament for his own inability to play sax, instead he became a great songwriter, band leader, pianist, and singer with one of the most instantly recognizable voices anywhere.
My saxophone teacher once met Fagin. Quote "He's the weirdest dude I ever met". This is coming from a fellow jazz musician
That's Tom Scott playing tenor on Deacon Blues. Has played with SNL and the Blues Brothers, often anonymously. Tom plays bari sax on "Sweet Home Chicago", which is interesting because you can hear it clearly even though there is no bari on stage with them in the movie. Tom also plays sax for Lisa Simpson I believe.
The blazing, orgasmic tenor sax solo on Aja at the climax of the instrumental interlude is Wayne Shorter.
