Fever Dreaming
If there was a Steely Dan song
About the Stanford Prison Experiment
I would know.
That's not the kind of thing
That escapes you where I come from.
I mean, I know the name of Donald Fagen's dog
And Walter Becker's favorite aftershave.
Do you think that if they'd recorded a song
About that particular social psychological phenomenon
I would be unaware?
I've heard two separate covers of Do Wrong Shoes,
An early tracking session of I Got The News,
Derivations of "If you're feelin' lucky you just can't refuse,"
I know exactly which deli on 8th Avenue
Walter Becker was referring to
In the single show Live at Slim's encore tune
More of a waltz than a twelve bar blues
Of The Girl Next Door To The Methadone Clinic
So yeah, motherfucker, call me a cynic
But I think I would know
If there was a Steely Dan song
About the Stanford Prison Experiment.
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