Lirik dan Chord Lagu Don't Take Me Alive - Steely Dan

Album tersebut diproduseri oleh Gary Katz dan dirilis pada 1976 dengan membawa sembilan lagu.

Lagu-lagu dalam album The Royal Scam sudah bisa dinikmati lewat platform musik digital.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Don't Take Me Alive" dari Steely Dan.

Cm Csus4 Cm F/G** G7

Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb Csus4 Csus4 Eb/Ab F/G*

Cm Csus4 Cm F/G** G7

Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7 Bb Csus4 Cm Cm Gm7/C

[Verse 1]
           Cm      Cm Cm7
Agents of the law
        Cm        Gm     Gm7
Luckless pedestrians

Gm                Fm7
I know you're out there

        Bb/Eb           C/F                    D/G
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
Eb/Ab F/G         Cm Cm7
Saying all is forgiven

Cm               Gm     Gm7
Mad Dog surrender

Gm             Fm7
How can I answer?

   Bb/Eb          C/F                D/G
A man of my mind can do anything.

[Chorus]
Eb/Ab F/G* Cm
I'm a bookkeeper's son

Cm      F/G**                   G7
I don't want to shoot no one

         Fm7                   Gm7             Abmaj7  Bb
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me

Csus4 Csus4
Alive

F/G     Cm             Cm
Got a case of dynamite

            F/G**                  G7
I could hold out here all night

          Fm7                  Gm7             Abmaj7  Bb
Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon, don't take me

Csus4 Csus4 Csus4 Csus4
alive

[Verse 2: chords sama dengan Verse 1]

Can you hear the evil crowd
The lies and the laughter
I hear my insides,
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

[Kembali ke Chorus]