Don't Take Me Alive - Steely Dan

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