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DON'T TAKE ME ALIVE Lyrics

Artist: Steely Dan
Album: Royal Scam

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:
I'm a bookkeeper's son
I don't want to shoot no one
Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive
Got a case of dynamite
I could hold out here all night
Yes I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don't take me alive

Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my inside
The mechanized hum of another world
Where no sun is shining
No red light flashing
Here in this darkness
I know what I've done
I know all at once who I am

CHORUS

Comments/Interpretations
by anfernee on 5/13/2008 4:09pm the white man is crazy
by damarust on 9/23/2008 5:18pm but good crazy
by macrathgar on 9/28/2008 3:36pm damn good song.
by susan on 10/15/2008 5:30pm what is this song about?
by Galley on 10/31/2008 7:55am Oregon? It sounds like he threw an extra syllable in there.
by Daniel on 11/2/2008 5:05am Its a beautiful song about the inner privacy of a mans heart, and the audacity that anyone else outside of his heart has the right to judge him..... he's not crazy .... everyone else is .... he is holding fast to his position out of courage that will ultimately define us all. Cool
by jon on 11/10/2008 5:33pm this song can be interpreted different ways he's basically in a situation where he's being persecuted by the law. he's done something violent, in which the law is trying to apprehend him and make him surrender. imagine robbing a bank and having the police all around the building trying to negotiate with you. that's the type of situation the character of the song appears to be in. the chorus is saying that he's an ordinary man who wants to die, and he doesnt want to shoot anyone - meaning he wont use the gun he weilds against anyone, just using it as suicide by cop. that's basically what it can be interperted to be
by T.rex on 1/9/2009 6:05pm I kind of assumed by the "crossed my old man back in Oregon" to mean the he killed his dad.
by BCee on 2/19/2009 11:09am Katy Lies (You can see it in her eyes)
by Terry C on 3/25/2009 11:43am One of my favorite Steely Dan songs along with Deacon Blues, Bad Sneakers, and Everyone's Gone To the Movies.
by Neil Gorman on 4/29/2009 5:43pm The song's about a robot. Go listen to it again. Then read the interview with Donald and Walter.
by sam on 6/6/2009 10:04pm It's a song about a sniper and his personal rationale to his actions. This has gotta be based on a true story- if it's not, then the bookeeper and oregon things are random as hell. Anybody know.
by drewo on 8/8/2009 12:45pm At the Beacon show in NYC last week, Fagen tweaked the line to "...with rage in your eyes and your iphones".
by Perspectives on 9/16/2009 9:29pm Anyone ever heard of Ruby Ridge?
by bluetunesdotcom on 10/22/2009 12:51pm song is about that guy that went nuts with a rifle atop university tower in austin, texas in mid early sixties
by Ragman. on 10/23/2009 8:17am Fagen wrote this song one night when he was pissy drunk. Like most Dan songs, it's catchy and means absolutely nothing.

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