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

ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU Steely Dan

ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU I never seen you looking so bad my funky one You tell me that your superfine mind has come undone CHORUS: Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend

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

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

GAUCHO Steely Dan

I know you're a special friend But you don't seem to understand We got heavy rollers I think you should know Try again tomorrow Can't you see they're laughing at me Get rid off him I don't care

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

JUNKIE GIRL Steely Dan

know you're laughing but I got to say Now I still want you maybe more than ever No fooling it's a fucked up world So be cool my little junkie girl The cops are out to shut the district down I

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

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

I.G.Y. Steely Dan

Standing tough under stars and stripes We can tell This dream's in sight You've got to admit it At this point in time that it's clear The future looks bright On that train all graphite and glitter

ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY THAT Steely Dan

ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY THAT A world become one Of salads and sun Only a fool would say that A boy with a plan A natural man Wearing a white stetson hat Unhand that gun begone There's no one

MIDNIGHT CRUISER Steely Dan

MIDNIGHT CRUISER Felonius my old friend Step on in and let me shake your hand So glad that you're here again For one more time Let your madness run with mine Streets still unseen we'll find somehow

PEARL OF THE QUARTER Steely Dan

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 beans and rice for a quarter You can see her almost any

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

WITH A GUN Steely Dan

WITH A GUN I could be wrong but I have seen your face before You were the man that I saw running from his door You owed him money but you gave him something more With a gun With a gun You will

BARRYTOWN Steely Dan

BARRYTOWN I'm not one to look behind I know that times must change But over there in Barrytown they do things very strange And though you're not my enemy I like things like they used to be And

RUBY BABY Steely Dan

RUBY BABY I got a girl and Ruby is her name She don't love me, but I love her just the same Ruby Baby how I want you Like a ghost I'm gonna haunt you Ruby Baby when will you be mine Each time

MAXINE Steely Dan

MAXINE Some say that we're reckless They say 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

SURF AND/OR DIE Steely Dan

SURF AND/OR DIE Earthbound 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

BLACK FRIDAY Steely Dan

men when they Dive from the fourteenth floor When Black Friday comes I'll collect everything I'm owed And before my friends find out I'll be on the road When Black Friday falls you know it's got to

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 world

SHOW BIZ KIDS Steely Dan

SHOW BIZ KIDS CHORUS: While the poor people sleepin' With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin' All the stars come out at night After closing time At the Guernsey Fair I detect

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 WATERLOO Steely Dan

MY WATERLOO I came a long long way from home I travelled far just to be here today Across an endless sea of salty tears Behind the divided line of eighteen years You gotta walk that road alone

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

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

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

LITTLE KAWAI Steely Dan

LITTLE KAWAI Here's a note from one Miss Turnbull Certain homework was not done Tiny holes in brand new windows From an unknown BB gun Cinder Annie and your Big Mommie Say the facts all point to

FIRE IN THE HOLE Steely Dan

FIRE IN THE HOLE I decline To walk the line They tell me that I'm lazy Worldly wise I realize That everybody's crazy A woman's voice reminds me To serve and not to speak Am I myself or just

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

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

HOME AT LAST Steely Dan

HOME AT LAST I know this super highway This bright familiar sun I guess that I'm the lucky one Who wrote that tired sea song Set on this peaceful shore You think you've heard this one before

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

BAD SNEAKERS Steely Dan

BAD SNEAKERS Five names that I can hardly Stand to hear Including yours and mine And one more chimp who isn't here I can see the ladies talking How the times are getting hard And that fearsome

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

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

FLORIDA ROOM Steely Dan

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 When summer's gone I

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

no good Better see about me babe If you only could now Girlfriend if it can't be you I don't even have anyone to tell my story to I said girlfriend if it can't be you Girlfriend if it can't be

Doctor Wu Steely Dan

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 would sing that stupid

Android Warehouse Steely Dan

Daytime you're too proud to brag about the badge you wore Nighttime you're too tired to drag your chains across the floor All your guns are gone I'm told or in the aerodrome Did you die the day they

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 to

what a shame about me Steely Dan

and CDs And I don't know what else She said, yeah, Hollywood's been good to me But tell me - how about yourself CHORUS: I'm still working on that novel But I'm just about to quit 'Cause I'm worrying

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

cousin dupree Steely Dan

back home to plan my next move From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch When I see my little cousin Janine walk in All I could say was ow-ow-ouch CHORUS: Honey how you've grown Like a rose Well

A Little With Sugar Steely Dan

I remember Christmas morning Back in 1954 When we moved up to Mount Savage As if it mattered anymore Mama always said How the air can clear her head We were colder and much higher Than we ever were before

negative girl Steely Dan

negative girl (5:35) She's lost - she's late She's zooming on a couch somewhere Or high - or home I'm not supposed to call her there I wait - I smoke I stare into my coke It's happening again

almost gothic Steely Dan

can barely cope I'm sizzling like an isotope I'm on fire so cut me some slack CHORUS: First she's way gone then she comes back She's all business then she's ready to play She's almost gothic in

WALK BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS Steely Dan

WALK BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS A shadow crossed the blue Miami sky As 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

TURN THAT HEARTBEAT OVER AGAIN Steely Dan

TURN THAT HEARTBEAT OVER AGAIN With stocking face I bought a gun The plan was set the plan was done Looked at my watch and started for the door Now the food here ain't so good no more And they