West of Hollywood Lyrics by Steely Dan

West of Hollywood Lyrics

    Brother in tears
    Look at this chain of sorrows
    Stretching all the way from here and now to hell and gone
    I was Kid Clean
    She was Anne de Siecle
    Just a thrill away from punching through to the cosmic wow
    It started out good
    Then it got lots better
    Makin' up the rules as we went along
    But with a business like this
    There's an gnarly downside

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    I'm way deep into nothing special
    Riding the crest of a wave breaking just west of Hollywood

    Swingin' so hard
    We burned right through the summer
    Till the axis of pain/pleasure sheared the arc of desire
    From the Rebus affair
    To the streets of Culver City
    Places and events slip below the horizon line
    Now at this time
    Into our pretty story
    The truth compels us
    To bring a certain name
    Meet if you will
    Doctor Warren Kruger

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    She reached out for my hand
    While I watched myself lurch across the room
    And I almost got there

    Look in my eyes
    Can't you see the core is frozen?
    You can't ask me to access the dreams I don't have now
    Sadly for us
    Our little talk is over
    So together we'll endure the tyranny of the disallowed
    Don't you love Port Blanc
    When Hooterie is over
    When the girls get easy and the crowds are gone
    A weekend of bliss
    Then the rainy season

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