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Steely Dan Database: lyrics of "Don't take me alive"

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Lyrics of

Don't take me alive

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Agents of the law
Luckless pedestrians
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
 
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
Dont 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
	
	

Authors

Person Music Lyrics
View the picture Donald Fagen Yes Yes
View the picture Walter Becker Yes Yes

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