Don't Take Me Alive Lyrics

The song Don't Take Me Alive is performed by Steely Dan in the album named Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980 in the year 1993 .



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

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, don't take me alive



Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980

Dec 1993

  1. Midnite Cruiser
  2. Razor Boy
  3. The Boston Rag
  4. Your Gold Teeth
  5. Show Biz Kids
  6. My Old School
  7. Pearl Of The Quarter
  8. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
  9. Night By Night
  10. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
  11. Barrytown
  12. East St. Louis Toodle-Do
  13. Parker's Band
  14. Through With Buzz
  15. Pretzel Logic
  16. With A Gun
  17. Charlie Freak
  18. Monkey In Your Soul
  19. Black Friday
  20. Bad Sneakers
  21. Rose Darling
  22. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
  23. Doctor Wu
  24. Everyone's GoneTo The Movies
  25. Your Gold Teeth II
  26. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
  27. Throw Back The Little Ones
  28. Kid Charlemagne
  29. The Caves Of Altamira
  30. Don't Take Me Alive
  31. Sign In Stranger
  32. The Fez
  33. Haitian Divorce
  34. Everything You Did
  35. The Royal Scam
  36. Aja
  37. Peg
  38. Home At Last
  39. I Got The News
  40. Josie
  41. Glamour Profession
  42. Gaucho
  43. Time Out Of Mind
  44. My Rival
  45. Third World Man
  46. Everyone's Gone To The Movies (Demo)

Don't Take Me Alive