Don't Take Me Alive

DONALD JAY FAGEN, WALTER CARL BECKER

Agents of the law
Luckless pedestrian
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
Don't 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

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
Don't take me alive

Trivia about the song Don't Take Me Alive by Steely Dan

On which albums was the song “Don't Take Me Alive” released by Steely Dan?
Steely Dan released the song on the albums “The Royal Scam” in 1976, “Citizen 1972-1980” in 1993, “Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story 1972 - 1980” in 2000, and “The Very Best of Steely Dan” in 2009.
Who composed the song “Don't Take Me Alive” by Steely Dan?
The song “Don't Take Me Alive” by Steely Dan was composed by DONALD JAY FAGEN, WALTER CARL BECKER.

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