Donald Fagen

Left New Hyde Park to hold my own in New York Town Groped in the dark Until I faced a place where scallywags are found Sharks and yo-yos everywhere I think you can take it from there Now there's a horse in town I scream: Honey it's just a clown Yes there's a h...

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 I recall her tailored jersey And the flowers...

Daytime you're to proud to brag About the badge you wore Nighttime you're to tired to drive Your change across the floor All your guns are gone I'm told Or in the Aerodrome Did you die the day they sold The ones you left at home Hold my hand in the Android War...

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 Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again When the demon is at your door...

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 they'll have me [Chorus] Any world that I'm welcome to...

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 though you'd like some company I'm standing by myself Go play with someone...

Take the worst of this quirky world Roll it up in a ball Add the hair of a go-go girl Turn it into a dance that's called The bloody... Brain Tap Shuffle Lose your mind You'll see the oceans part you'll think your goin' blind You can talk about your daily grind...

I dreamed I had a fever I was pushin' one-oh-three My mom's all upset Crying by my bedside Everybody's praying for me I hear a scratchin' at my window I somehow twist myself around I realize I'm eyes to eyes With the fella in the brite nitegown Brite Nitegown...

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 Under me His lady's aching To bring a body down She daily preaches On where she wants to...

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 inside a hall of rock and sand On the stone an ancient hand In a faded yellow-g...

Those trucks in the street Is it really Monday? Time to find some trouble again Make a bid for romance While the dollar stands a chance Dumb love in the city at century's end We tap to this line Dancing on a mirror There's no disbelief to suspend It'...

Charlie Freak had but one thing to call his own Three weight ounce pure golden ring no precious stone Five nights without a bite No place to lay his head And if nobody takes him in He'll soon be dead On the street he spied my face I heard him hail In ou...

I don't like waiting for a knock on the door I don't like wondering why I got no mercy for a man and his tears He's just living a lie I got a feeling like I'm losing my cool That's no way to be You got me crying got me playing the fool That's what you're doin...

On a night like this You look up at your lover It's like you're in some old cartoon Then you detect The scent of faded roses Up in the sky There's that cruel countermoon Could that be murder you see in her eyes You try a long and desperate kiss You ca...

I hear you found a brand new friend Well if I try to take you back again If I decide to make amends Don't let me in You know, I'd like to be inside But don't you listen when you hear me cry Not even just to say goodbye Don't let me in I say no no no no...

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 When summer’s gone I get ready To make that Carribee run I’ve got to have Some time...

I walked into Lindey's, tired and tight Me and my Julie, been a' fighting all night Bankroll don't like it when I come in late We got a big beef with a small concern we must liquidate. We cab down to the St. Mark for a lookie-lou They'ra all loungin' in t...

Uptown It's murder out in the street Uptown It's murder out in the street That's where I found my mandarin plum That's where you'd be if you found one Where the nights are bright And joy is complete Keep my squeeze on Green Flower Street Since May...

I hear Denise is back on the outside That she's got a wicked plan She's callin' in the Gong Sisters again To form the ultimate five-chord band For eight months now in that freaking cell She's been knockin' ideas around Now she's good and ready to make a big no...

I'm working hard from morning 'til night My shoulder bent into the wheel I get home, you start to run me down How do you think it makes me feel? Your lashing turn It hurts my soul I start to think And I lose control I'm not moving like I know I should Or feel...

Since you've been gone, an awesome change has come about My life is different now, I'm not the same without you I'm evolving at a really astounding rate of speed Into something way cooler, than what I was before I feel much stronger than I have in years...

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 Undersea by rail Ninety minutes from New York to Paris...

What's this fierce new change? Has your juggernaut reached my door? Am I out of range? Think another thought before Babies are ground up In the last big round-up Ease your head play it cool in a patio chair Try to design a postcard from your mind Piggy...

They came in under the radar When our backs were turned around In a fleet of Lincoln Town Cars They rolled to our town Confounded all six senses Like an opiate in the brain Mary shut the garden door Looks a lot like rain Mary shut the garden door Mary shut th...

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 We meet at Lincoln Mall Talk about life the meaning of it all Try to...

Have you seen the memorabilia The rusty old memorabilia The souvenirs of perfect doom In the back of Louis Dakine's backroom Have you seen the memorabilia The dusty old memorabilia The souvenirs of perfect doom In the back of Louis Dakine's backroom Have you...

Hey, don't worry, I've been lied to I've been here many times before Girl, don't you worry, I know where I stand I don't need this love, I don't need your hand I know I could turn, blink, and you'd be gone Then I must be prepared any time to carry on But minut...

Back in double-o-seven Miss M was queen She could roll like a pro rolls When she was seventeen Whether straight or hammered She was the best in town When she release the red ball All the pins fall down Can’t you hear the balls rumble? Can’t you hear...

Will you walk a little faster?, said a whiting to a snail There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail Don't you see how eagerly the turtles and the lobsters all advance They are waiting on the shingle, won't you come and join the dance? Wi...

The fish are flying in the county sea The cops are searching for a missing pea And Billy Burroughs, is he still on the nod? Be with the girl if I'm not a dandy guy But be assured that if this shaking world Is sucked into the sun More to come More to come And w...

High above Manhattan town What floats and has a shape like that Fans like us who watch the skies We know it's Morph the Cat Gliding like a big blue cloud From Tomkins Square to Upper Broadway Beyond the park to Sugar Hill Stops a minute for a latte He oozes...

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 The key word is survival on the new frontier Introduce me to that big...

I heard them whispering I saw their eyes, their chests Their secret smiles Dance a wild new tango Overrun the great placenta And who received the first "bang, bang"? It was the whole goddamned gang What can the price for freedom be? The old Regime Is falling T...

Drive along the sea Far from the city's twitch and smoke To a misty beach That's where my life became a joke On the dunes On the dunes (Became a joke on the dunes) Where rents are high And seabirds cry On the dunes As you spoke you must have known...

You've come a long way baby, From wealth and food stamp lines, You're moving on up, And leaving poverty behind. You've had a good education, And seen the best of the schools, But when you take a drink, The ghetto comes out of you. [Chorus] I took you out of...

Savoy sides presents a new saxophone sensation It's Parker's band with a smooth style of syncopation Kansas City born and growing You won't believe what the boys are blowing You got to come on man And take a piece of Mister Parker's band You'll be riding by...

She’s from a small town somewhere upstate I guess she’s somewhere between 19 and 38 She stays up all night – she drives too fast I say easy baby- baby slow down It’s never gonna happen On Planet D’Rhonda When we go out dancin’ – she's always the star W...

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 I see you baby my heart cries I'm gonna steal you away from all those guys Fr...

Well I guess I needed a miracle If I was gonna make my flight I had to get to gate C13 And it was still way out of site But something in my carry on bag Ticked off the x-ray machine 'Cause then an angel straight from heaven Asked me to step behind the screen....

It was an October morning, Near the carousel, I met a light young beauty And we talked there for a spell. We walked up by the green lawn And my heart began to sing. Mad man on a bench screams out, "Hold onto that slinky thing Hold onto that slinky thing." Wen...

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 tight We can beat the freeze And get saved tonight Let's stop off at t...

Jolly tricks and politics May mess you up Soul Ram Little men with stick pins Leave you high and dry Soul Ram Baby runs the show She's got a Soul Ram Understand Who could know That she'd be up on top All night long Never stop Right or wrong Carousels and wishi...

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 - shimmering Yowie! - It's Connie Lee At the wheel of her Shark-de-Vill...

Out on the fringe Where the shallows meet the scratchlands Out where hope and the highway ends You can park or cruise Both ways you lose This is Flytown now my friend You take a walk on Bleak Street Tonight could be the night you crash Then you turn a...

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 are gone exept for two The embassy's been hard to reach There's been talk and...

The Great Pagoda of Fun The stars are bright tonight the air is sweet though summer's over now there's a strange new music in the street you and i know the world can't be like this it's our love that makes it shine girl whatever trouble waits outside these wa...

Tonight, I ran into that kid, who's been upgrading all your stuff. You're right, he really knows his shit, a real diamond in the rough. A funny little load clicks on, inside my head. So tell me, he doesn't seem your type, but is there something I should k...

Mona's become a child of the night When she goes out It's only for bare necessities She says she's had it up to here with light While the city sleeps That's when she comes alive Yes, the night belongs to Mona When she's dancing all alone Forty floors above th...

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 Thanks for calling I wait all night for calls like these An ind...

What is the meaning Of the morning rain? I got a feeling It's no good I waited for my baby But she never made the train Now I'm hoping At the next stop she will be there She'll catch my eye And satisfy my every care This seat's been taken Don't ask me where sh...

Our town is just like any other Good citizens at work and play Normal folks doin' business in the normal way This morning was like any other Mommies kissing daddies goodbye Then the milkman screamed And pointed up at the sky Chorus: From Sheilus to th...

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 bullet Or a bug with monster wheels It's a total biosphere The farm in the back Is hydrop...

Crewmen of the true companion I can see you're tired of action In this everlasting twilight Home is just a sad extraction Just beyond the troubled skyways Young men dream of fire and starshine I've been dreaming of my own green world Far across the reach of s...

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 vowed we'd never say goodbye When we kissed we could hear the sound of thunder As we wat...

The air is boiling Sun on my back Inside I'm frozen girl I'm about to crack [repeat the following lyrics] They may fix The weather in the world Just like Mr. Gore said But tell me what's to be done Lord - 'bout the weather in my head [end repeat] Girl when yo...

I say Ray why do girls treat you nice that way He said it's not what I know what I think or say It's what I do It's what I do It's deep beneath the skin It's what I major in It's what I do Yes I come to play some big bad soul Well I could rock long before the...

Hunting in the Sea of Japan, Ambrose left the tourist trail behind him. So bold with his gun in his hand, Of his furs there was no need to remind him. Tripping over a Holy Man, Mind that here you don't choose your friends, Ambrose asked for a helping hand, He...

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 darling As long as you go where I go I can't complain about the pain and...