The Quantum Theory of Insanity

"Everybody on the street has murder in his eyes. You feel no pain and you're younger than you realize," Steely Dan's "Don't Take Me Alive" says Mark David Chapman. The song is about a hostage situation with dynamite and guns waiting for the cops to come and get him who I think kind of wants the cops toComeGetMeAlive. It feels very much like that is a, it's a quintessentially American story in its own really dark way.

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