Week 30: Kid Charlemagne II
For a change, something rather dark ... my favourite album by Steely Dan.
"Kid Charlemagne" is the opening song of Steely Dan's 5th album "The Royal Scam," released in 1976. Wikipedia comments that, "With irony-laden verses about drug dealers, safe sex, extramarital affairs and hardships faced by immigrants, The Royal Scam is arguably Steely Dan at its most cynical."
"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
[...]
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here
Is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall
Know who you are"
Week 30: Kid Charlemagne II
For a change, something rather dark ... my favourite album by Steely Dan.
"Kid Charlemagne" is the opening song of Steely Dan's 5th album "The Royal Scam," released in 1976. Wikipedia comments that, "With irony-laden verses about drug dealers, safe sex, extramarital affairs and hardships faced by immigrants, The Royal Scam is arguably Steely Dan at its most cynical."
"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
[...]
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here
Is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall
Know who you are"