Things I miss the most
I don't mind the quiet
Or the lonely nights
I don't miss the funky attitudes
And I don't miss the fights
I lie on the couch till suppertime
And hunker down and read the Post
And that's when I remember the things I miss the most:
The talk
The sex
Somebody to trust
The Audi TT
The house on the Vineyard
The house on the gulf coast
These are the things I miss the most
I kinda like frying up
My sad cuisine
Gettin' in bed and curling up with a girlie magazine
But sometimes in the corner of my eye
I see that adorable ghost
And then ba-boom I remember the things I miss the most
The talk
The sex
Somebody to trust
The comfy Eames chair
The good copper pans
The '54 Strat
These are the things I miss the most
I had a little birdy friend
By morning she was gone
Birdy good-bye
Birdy bye-bye
I'm learning how to meditate
So far so good
I'm building the Andrea Doria out of balsa wood
The days really don't last forever
But it's getting pretty damn close
And that's when I remember the things I miss the most:
The talk
The sex
Somebody to trust
The Audi TT
The house on the Vineyard
The house on the gulf coast
These are the things I miss the most.
Commentary
The minstrels poem on September 16th (“Things I Didn’t Know I Loved”) reminded me of this Steely Dan song from their new album (“Everything Must Go”). I was a little unsure about sending in the lyrics of a Steely Dan song. But then, I found two other songs by Steely Dan - “Charlie Freak” (Poem #921) and “Chain Lighting” (Poem #965) on Minstrels.
Steely Dan’s songs more often than not are misty stories of scheming husbands (“Gaslighting Abbie”), divorcees (“Things I miss the most”), stalkers (“Lunch with Gina”) and voyeurs (“Cousin Dupree”). The lyrics unapologetically twine the banal and the personal to create cheerless imagery and are replete with dark humour, cryptic innuendo, verbal sophism and even cheap wisecracks. The duo (Donald Fagen and Walter Becker) of Steely Dan are themselves the epitome of unflappable cool, the wisecracking losers who in spite of their affected stance endear themselves to their fans because of the genuine lack of artifice in their works.
Every new Steely Dan song is clinically dissected and examined by their devoted minions at http://www.feverdreams.net
— Prashanth