DOWN IN THE BOTTOM Steely Dan

DOWN IN THE BOTTOM In case you're wondering it's alive 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

THE ROYAL SCAM Steely Dan

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

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

CRINGEMAKER Steely Dan

CRINGEMAKER What ever happened to my college belle When did she turn into the wife from hell Cringemaker What are we coming to Cringemaker What have they done to you In the beginning we

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?

LUCKY HENRY Steely Dan

LUCKY HENRY Dusted down in shanty town behind a sky of red Hoist upon some frozen dawn exploding in my head Fast asleep in trouble deep or wide awake and burning Stuck inside some stranger's hide

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

MEDICAL SCIENCE Steely Dan

Down the alley My gal Sally A little bruised and battered maybe from a couple times before Hold her steady You know I think she's ready To climb into the ring and do it all once more Does it

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

JOSIE Steely Dan

JOSIE We're gonna break out the hats and hooters When Josie comes home We're gonna rev up the motor scooters When Josie comes home to stay We're gonna park in the street Sleep on the beach and

RAZOR BOY Steely Dan

RAZOR BOY I hear you are singing a song of the past I see no tears I know that you know it may be the last For many years You'd gamble or give anything To be in with the better half But how

HERE AT THE WESTERN WORLD Steely Dan

HERE AT THE WESTERN WORLD Down at the Lido they welcome you With sausage and beer Klaus and The Rooster have been there too But lately he spends his time here Hangin' with the Mayor and all

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

MY OLD SCHOOL Steely Dan

MY OLD SCHOOL I remember the thirty-five sweet goodbyes When you put me on the Wolverine Up to Annandale It was still September When your daddy was quite surprised To find you with the working

negative girl Steely Dan

sun Some hearts to crunch Is more like her idea of fun I know - she's ill I'm cruising for a spill I'm hanging just the same I need to be in the heat Of her cold white flame CHORUS: Another

BLACK FRIDAY Steely Dan

BLACK FRIDAY When Black Friday comes I'll stand down by the door And catch the grey men when they Dive from the fourteenth floor When Black Friday comes I'll collect everything I'm owed And

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

MONKEY IN YOUR SOUL Steely Dan

MONKEY IN YOUR SOUL I got one and you want four It's so hard to help you I can't keep up with you no more And you treat me like it's a sin But you can't lock me in You want me here with you right

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

Green Book Steely Dan

My coat is black and the moon is yellow Here is where I get off As you can see for yourself old girl in the Green Book I tango down to the smoky lobby My eyes adjust to the light The new cashier looks

BOOK OF LIARS Steely Dan

girl and I came so far To find out you're not always who you say you are And there's a star in the book of liars by your name Santa Claus came in late last night Drunk on Christmas wine Fell

WITH A GUN Steely Dan

be what you are just the same Did you pay the other man with the piece in your hand And leave him lying in the rain?

Lunch With Gina Steely Dan

That must be her again She's leaning on my bell That cold psychotic ring The one I know so well So I'm nailed to the floor in the no-option zone There's about zero chance she'll give up and go home This

janie runaway Steely Dan

janie runaway (4:08) It must have been my lucky Thursday Your dad went on that spree Before the crew could put out the fires You hopped a bus for NYC Down in Tampa the future looked desperate

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,

Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More Steely Dan

Daddy don't live in that New York City No more He don't celebrate Sunday on a Saturday night No more Daddy don't need no lock and key For the piece he stowed Out on Avenue D Daddy don't live in that New

NIGHT BY NIGHT Steely Dan

NIGHT BY NIGHT It's a beggars life, said the Queen of Spain But don't tell it to a poor man 'Cause he's got to kill for every thrill The best he can Everywhere around me I see jealousy and mayhem

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

Everyone's Gone To The Movies Steely Dan

Kids, if you want some fun, Mister La Page is your man; He's always laughing, having fun, Showing his films in his den. Come on, come on.

THE BOSTON RAG Steely Dan

THE BOSTON RAG Any news was good news And the feeling was bad at home I was out of mind and you Were on the phone Lonnie was the kingpin Back in nineteen sixty-five I was singing this song

I GOT THE NEWS Steely Dan

I GOT THE NEWS You In your Lark You're a mark You're a screamer You know How to hustle Daddy Is a rare Millionaire I don't care Yeah you Got the muscle I got the news Yes dear How

KID CHARLEMAGNE Steely Dan

KID CHARLEMAGNE While the music played you worked by candlelight Those San Francisco nights You were the best in town Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl You turned it on the

You Go Where I Go Steely Dan

"I'm about to cry and I don't know the reason I can see the start of a difficult season I can't let it get me down when everything is going wrong Ain't it good to know that I can be strong?

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

GAUCHO Steely Dan

gaucho amigo Why is he standing In your spangled leather poncho And your elevator shoes Bodacious cowboys Such as your friend Will never be welcome here High in the Custerdome What I tell you

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

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

Any World (That I'm Welcome To) Steely Dan

If I had my way I would move to another lifetime I'd quit my job Ride the train through the misty nighttime I'll be ready when my feet touch ground Wherever I come down And if the folks will have me Then

YOUR GOLD TEETH Steely Dan

Then you try to tie me down Do you work it out one by one Or played in combination You throw out your gold teeth Do you see how they roll I have seen your iron and your brass Can't you see it shine

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

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

cousin dupree Steely Dan

cousin dupree (5:28) Well I've kicked around a lot since high school I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs From keyboard man in a rock'n ska band To haulin' boss crude in the big rigs Now I've come

SNOWBOUND Steely Dan

SNOWBOUND At Nervous Time We roll downtown We've got scenes to crash We're gonna trick and trash We're gonna find some fun We hit the street With visors down With our thermasuits Sealed up

SURF AND/OR DIE Steely Dan

losing control And so what about her, and little Eldon and Layla And that hypothetical spectre, your gilt-edged soul Which defied many perils, in the face of all reason And in so many settings and

Things I Miss The Most Steely Dan

I don't mind the quiet Or the lonely nights I don't miss the funky attitudes And I don't miss the fights I lie on the couch 'till suppertime And hunker down and read the Post And that's when I remember

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

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

EVERYTHING YOU DID Steely Dan

EVERYTHING YOU DID Where did the bastard run Is he still around Now you gotta tell me everything you did baby I'm gonna get a gun Shoot the lover down Are you gonna tell me everything you did

THIRD WORLD MAN Steely Dan

THIRD WORLD MAN Johnny's playroom Is a bunker filled with sand He's become a third world man Smoky Sunday He's been mobilized since dawn Now he's crouching on the lawn He's a third world man

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