Steely Dan almost made me cry today.



Today I was washing some dishes at work and I heard "Reeling in the Years" on the radio.

For some reason I was so overwhelmed by how much I love that song that I sort of teared up.

I don't know what it is that I love so much about the Steely Dan, or that song in particular. I'm pretty sure it's these lines:

You've been telling me you're a genius since you were 17,
in all the time I've known you I still don't know what that means.
The weekend at the college didn't work out like you planned,
the things that pass for knowledge I can't understand.

That just fucking destroys me. There's something about it that really resonates with me. It's almost like I wrote it, you know? Very rarely do I find lyrics meaningful or moving [which I suppose is probably why I write my own], but there's a certain magic in Becker/Fagen songs that moves in a way that other music doesn't.

My directive for the day: LISTEN TO STEELY DAN.
- posted by Mason @ 11:53 PM