[mrsmel]

I know, about the over-analysation, it’s just that Donald Fagen, to this not NYC-hip southerner, has the kind of public persona which just begs for it. At least I realise my lack of sophistication, when it comes to people like him :)

[SamAdams76]

I wasn't talking about you over-analyzing but myself under-analyzing. I'll catch snippets of lyrics in a song but mostly I'll rely on the music itself to set the mood and theme of a song.

I literally went for years thinking Springsteen's "Born in the USA" was a pro-America album until somebody pointed out to me that the album cover featured Springsteen appearing to "urinate" on the US Flag and that some of his song lyrics were anti-American.

I never picked up on that but for me, the music from that album (another of my alltime favorites) will always remind me of the mid-1980s, when Reagan was president and the future seemed very, very bright.