*Real Meaning*, Phil and his best friend were swimming at the beach and his mate began to drown so Phil asked a man to help and he said no 'Thinking it was a joke' so phil watched his best friend as a kid drown and die. I think the people down the hall, know who you are.' Its a great lyric, although hidden.like most-all of their lyrics. Key points: 'Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the Pearl.you turned it on the world.thats when you turned the world around' And.'All your low-rent friends are dead.life can be very strange.those test-tubes and the scales, just get em all out of here.is their gas in the car? Yes, there is gas in the car. He made millions of tablets of strong LSD in his day, and then dissapeared.

Its about Stanley Owsley III, a chemist who was well-known in the San Francisco drug culture.

This is a tough song to decipher.as are many Steely Dan Songs. So, before you start to make a reference to a song please research it before you put description into an artists work. He uses brown because heroin is normally found as a brown powder (china brown). In the song he says, 'slipping and a sliding' which is a description of using a needle for injection. The drugs that pleasure this area are cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy. The word 'girl' in drug culture is used for drugs that work on the brains hypothalamus region this is the same area one feels pleasure during sexual activity. To prove this to you I will mention a couple of facts. The song sounds happy and upbeat, but this hides the character's seedy hobby. I know you're used to 16 or more, sorry we only have 8' That last line is a reference to the size of the film, 16mm or larger would be a pro film.8mm is amateur. Key Lines 'Soon it will be to late.bobbing for apples can wait.

Steely Dan's 'Everyone' Gone to the Movies'Ī song about a guy who shows dirty movies in his den on his own old movie projector to kids.

Susanna was in sweet dreams and she was in a plane and it sadly crashed. Sweet dreams and flying machines in peices on the ground represent when his girlfriends plane crashed. What i interpet the song is when he sings susanna the plans they put an end to you.

James Taylor's 'I Seen Fire And I Seen Rain'.

This is a song anbout the Welsh witch-goddess and seducer Rhiannon We also have pages on this topic devoted to the 80s and 90s We're looking for songs that aren't immediately obvious. These are the meanings behind the song lyrics from various songs of the 70s. Meaning of Lyrics From Songs of the Seventies

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