This is the day of the expanding man That shape is my shade, there where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday, I gazed through the glass At Ramblers, wild gamblers, that's all in the past You call me a fool, you say its a crazy scheme This one's for real, I already bought the dream So useless to ask me why Throw a kiss and say goodbye I'll make it this time I'm ready to cross that fine line I'll learn to work the saxophone I'll play just what I feel Drink scotch whisky, all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues Deacon Blues My back to the wall, a victim of laughing chance This is for me, the essence of true romance Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind Libations, sensations, that stagger the mind I crawl like a viper, through the suburban streets Make love to these women, languid and bitter sweet I rise when the sun goes down Cover every game in town A world of my own I'll make it my home sweet home I'll learn to work the saxophone I'll play just what I feel Drink scotch whisky, all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues Deacon Blues This is the night of the expanding the man I take one last drag, as I approach the stand I cried when I wrote this song Sue me if I play too long This brother is free I'll be what I want to be I'll learn to work the saxophone I'll play just what I feel Drink scotch whisky, all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues Deacon Blues
This is the day of the expanding man That shape is my shade, there where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday, I gazed through the glass At Ramblers, wild gamblers, that's all in the past You call me a fool, you say its a crazy scheme This one's for real, I already bought the dream So useless to ask me why Throw a kiss and say goodbye I'll make it this time I'm ready to cross that fine line I'll learn to work the saxophone I'll play just what I feel Drink scotch whisky, all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues Deacon Blues My back to the wall, a victim of laughing chance This is for me, the essence of true romance Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind Libations, sensations, that stagger the mind I crawl like a viper, through the suburban streets Make love to these women, languid and bitter sweet I rise when the sun goes down Cover every game in town A world of my own I'll make it my home sweet home I'll learn to work the saxophone I'll play just what I feel Drink scotch whisky, all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues Deacon Blues This is the night of the expanding the man I take one last drag, as I approach the stand I cried when I wrote this song Sue me if I play too long This brother is free I'll be what I want to be I'll learn to work the saxophone I'll play just what I feel Drink scotch whisky, all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues Deacon Blues
"Deacon Blues" chegou ao Top 20 da Billboard Hot 100, alcançando o lugar #19 em 1978 e permanecendo na Top 40 por oito semanas.
A canção foi escrita em casa, na praia de Malibu, onde Donald Fagen apresentou a letra ao colega e ambos concordaram de forma quase improvisada que o título refletia a ideia de “ser chamado de Deacon Blues” enquanto a torcida gritava “Crimson Tide”.
Em entrevista ao AOL em 1994, Walter Becker descreveu a inspiração como “um outgrowth of a specific mood” que surgiu num momento particular, reforçando a natureza quase espontânea da composição.
Becker revelou em um documentário de 2000 que o protagonista da música não é músico, mas um “loserdom” que imagina ser “um dos mitos de fracasso”, mostrando a camada de ironia que permeia a letra.
Apesar de não ter sido indicada a prêmios, “Deacon Blues” continua sendo destaque na discografia de Steely Dan, sendo a quinta single de sucesso da banda nos Estados Unidos.
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