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NIGHT BY NIGHT Lyrics
Artist: Steely Dan
Album: Pretzel Logic
It's a beggars life, said the Queen of Spain
But don't tell it to a poor man
'Cause he's got to kill for every thrill
The best he can
Everywhere around me
I see jealousy and mayhem
Because no men have all their peace of mind
To carry them
Well I don't really care
If it's wrong or if it's right
But until my ship comes in
I'll live night by night
When the joker tried to tell me
I could cut it in this rube town
When he tried to hang that sign on me
I said Take it down
When the dawn patrol got to tell you twice
They're gonna do it with a shotgun
Yes, I'm cashing in this ten-cent life
For another one
Well I ain't got the heart
To lose another fight
So until my ship comes in
I'll live night by night
Well I don't really care
If it's wrong or if it's right
But until my ship comes in
I'll live night by night
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Comments/Interpretations
Line one should be "Queen of Spades"
It's been almost two years; why haven't you made the correction Danny told you about?
sounds like 'spain' to me... list in hp's and crank it up...
It's definitely Queen of Spain.
It's Spades............
it's spain...
It's most certainly spain.
its spades of course its spades, this is steely dan!
Moving on . . . stanza 2, line 2 is surely "couldn't cut it", not "could". "Couldn't" makes more sense.
It's 'Could'. Listen to the song.
Its "Queen of Spades.
Vegas....Spades.
I checked in the published score.
a masterpiece ! poetry in a very pragmatic and technical understanding of our insignificant world