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Nov 23, 2009
Probably one of my Steely Dan favourites, as much for the melodies and harmonies of the chorus and the pure overall songwriting craft, but the lyrics have always interested me. I see a respectable hypocrite entertaining dinner guests at his Mailbu home when he answers the door to two degenerates whom he knows from perhaps the seedier side of his life. He attempts to get rid of them before they embarrass and expose him. However, I feel there's more to it or that I am missing important nuances and so I'm prepared to stand corrected. In any case, I find I'm in sympathy with the hyprocrites position, odly, enough, or that I understand his loneliness and vulnerabilty, his underlife coming finally to seek him out. Icemanmwk November 2009.