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BLACK FRIDAY Lyrics

Artist: Steely Dan
Album: Katy Lied

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 before my friends find out
I'll be on the road
When Black Friday falls you know it's got to be
Don't let it fall on me
When Black Friday comes
I'll fly down to Muswellbrook
Gonna strike all the big red words
From my little black book
Gonna do just what I please
Gonna wear no socks and shoes
With nothing to do but feed
All the kangaroos
When Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill
You know I will

When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it 'til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop's gonna sanctify me
And if he don't come across
I'm gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna stake my claim
I'll guess I'll change my name

Comments/Interpretations
by MarkT. on 7/12/2008 1:14am It's about another stock market crash, like the one in 1929.
by Moonlightlady339 on 9/11/2008 1:49pm True, Mark, but also, a lot of people in jobs that change quickly like this song. I know a lot of people in radio broadcasting use the song when they have heard, behind the scenes, that their jobs are in jeopardy because of a format change, so the week before they get fired, they "always" play "Black Friday", lol.
by nader PAUL mckinney on 9/15/2008 12:07pm Sunday Bloody Sunday The Wall Street Shuffle ralph DR RON cynthia What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged & plundered & ripped her & bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn & tied her with fences & Dragged her down! mike dennis jesse ross
by Tom3 on 9/21/2008 1:35pm I'm going to play this song over and over at cranked stereo volume when the $hit hits the fan. Which will be any day now, thanks to Chimpynomics and the Repuke party.
by pablo on 10/7/2008 11:58am Tom3 The fan has been hit! I've got my eyes on the 14th floor.
by TED on 10/10/2008 10:55am We should have listened to Ron Paul.
by rockin' daddy0 on 10/10/2008 11:23pm This sounds like it was written for this week's stock market plunge! What a great song by the creative genius called Steely Dan! Our band CAT4 has worked into our setlist for live performance at Looe Key TIKI Bar in Ramrod Key, Florida. Be there next 2 Friday nites, Oct 17th and 24th, 2008. We dedicate to all- the overpaid executives and the rst of us losing our retirement savings that were foolishly invested in the stock market. God Bless the common man!
by Comrade Doktor Nyet on 10/24/2008 4:00pm Today was almost the day for Black Friday.
by memo on 11/12/2008 12:55pm 1869 jewish gol hoarders fisk and gould people the jews
by De Wreck on 11/28/2008 5:41am Happy Black Friday people. It's the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year. :)
by inyoface on 11/28/2008 12:06pm Mark: I don't think it's about the stock market crash; that was Black Tuesday. My mother suggested it was about the day after Thanksgiving, but I highly doubt it. :P I'd have to agree that it's just generally speaking about sht hitting the fan. Sht happens. Roll with it. It's interesting to look at the religious imagery. The narrator seems to cast it aside indifferently. The "big red words from my little black book" could be referencing the Bible (most Bibles print words Jesus spoke in red.). In this part of the song, he dismisses religion, but later, mentioning the archbishop, he looks for pardoning. But if he "don't come across [he's] gonna let it roll." This suggests an apathetic view of religion. I don't think it's necessarily a strike against it. I think he's just suggesting that religion is more of an emotional crutch for some, and should be considered so instead of truth. Whew...
by Long Island John on 12/2/2008 7:57pm On Long Island, when Black Friday comes you don't stand down by the door, especially in Wal-Mart.
by Dave from Tasmania on 3/10/2009 12:56am Well the thing that twigged for me was the line "going down to Muswellbrook".little town close to where I grew up in the Hunter Valley of N.S.W., Australia. Hence the following line "Nothin to do but feed all the Kangaroos". Yeah not much happens there, beautiful place ..but, asd far away from politics and economics as you can get. Love "the DAN"
by Deiter from Venice, CA on 4/14/2009 3:50am Well, Fagen the lyricist is Jewish so his allusions to the Christian religion are likely metaphorical or literary. The description above of striking the "red words" from the "black book" is interesting, it's debatable at best. Black Friday is traditionally the day the market crashed in '29 but there have been other similar disasterous crashes in U.S. history (1869, Black Tuesday in '87, and the Asian market crash more recently). I'd guess that Black Friday is simply a metaphor for the illusory and fallible nature, as well as all the B.S., surrounding the religion of the financial markets and it's string-pullers. This song offers one take on the insanity that follows. How does one cope? Insanity is one way. It's a great metaphor.
by E williams on 6/4/2009 4:32am It is relating to Australia..Muswellbrook..Has an eeary relevancle to black saturday 2009 where many people perished!

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