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Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)

Released by Steely Dan in 1972
From the Album: Can't Buy A Thrill |

This version of Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) was released by Steely Dan in 1972.

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A race of angels
Bound with one another
A dish of dollars
Laid out for all to see
A tower room at Eden Rock
His golf at noon for free
Brooklyn owes the charmer
Under me

His lady’s aching
To bring a body down
She daily preaches
On where she wants to be
An evening with a movie queen
A face we all have seen
Brooklyn owes the charmer
Under me

A case of aces
Done up loose for dealing
A piece of island cooling in the sea
The whole of time we gain or lose
And power enough to choose
Brooklyn owes the charmer
Under me


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Steely Dan. Some of the lyrics to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Steely Dan and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)" means the words set to the music of Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Steely Dan. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) and the lyrics to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Steely Dan who came here looking just for the lyrics to Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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