Gerry Rafferty Lyrics

    ------ About the song Get It Right Next Time performed by Gerry Rafferty

I read recently that someone thought that Gerry Rafferty was a "one hit wonder" because she had only heard "Baker Street". It is so very unfortunate that the late great Mr. Rafferty didn't want to tour in the US, and most of his music wasn't played on the radio here. "Get it right next time" is one of my favorites. It would well be worth anyone's time to check out the plethora of his music. I think it's all fantastic, and I wish he was still with us.

    ------ About the song Baker Street performed by Gerry Rafferty

I'm amazed at some of the interpretations of this.
First of all just enjoy a masterful song for what it is, it is a perfect blend, music and emotion that has stood the test of time and will continue to be a classic.
Second, the lyric is pretty obvious, Gerry Rafferty was well known to write about what he knew, what was happening to him and what he observed. It isn't fiction or political it is about someone who has been disappointed at the direction their life has taken. It is a song about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence.
To me it says that Gerry Rafferty enjoyed the music, thought he'd make a go of being successful at it and then came to realise that what he was happy with was music, not being a success.
Gerry Rafferty, a fine talent, immortalised with his music, sadly missed.

    ------ About the song Baker Street performed by Gerry Rafferty

when I first heard this song on the radio back in 1978 it got to my very soul. Wow what a musical masterpiece. The way the guitar and sax were in perfect harmony!!1978 was a bad year for me but this song made me think about how I needed to change my own life around thank you gerry rafferty...

    ------ About the song Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway performed by Gerry Rafferty

I had forgotten this song by the late lamented Gerry Rafferty until I came across a CD in a junk shop which contained it (amongst many other fine folk songs and performances). I love it's sense of looking on the bright side after what was obviously a painful parting. It's a real "glass half full" song and shows Gerry at his sardonic best. He was a fine performer and writer and is sadly missed.

    ------ About the song The Ark performed by Gerry Rafferty

I bought the City to City album in high school not long after reading "Lord of the Rings". The lyrics of "The Ark" always hearken me back to the final scene in the trilogy when Frodo boards Cirdan's ship and sails toward Valinor. He eventually hears "a sweet singing running in his mind; a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise." That evocative image remains with me to this day whenever I listen to this wonderful song.

    ------ About the song Baker Street performed by Gerry Rafferty

According to Wikipedia, Gerry Rafferty was in the process of breaking off with Stealers Wheel and "Everyone was suing everyone"... so he was spending a lot of time commuting to London, and meeting with Lawyers. After a day of trial and meetings, and negotiations, he would frequently crash at a friend's pad... and as a result, they'd "talk about anything". At the end of the song, the legal fighting is over, and so his spirits lift cause he's going home again. The song expresses Gerry's dissatisfaction with the Rock & Roll music world of London. He's fed up, and weary, and wants to go home.

For years, I thought it was a story of a waitress walking home after work, and finding her boyfriend high, not getting anywhere, not moving forward, but spinning his wheels and wasting her time. But in the ending, she's resolved to leave him, leave the city, and make a break in her life. She's going home...

I was totally wrong, as it turns out, but it still speaks to me every time I hear it.

    ------ About the song Baker Street performed by Gerry Rafferty

Baker Street is obviously about Dr Watson and his sordid cohabtation with Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was always claiming he was ging to give up the cottaging and heroine but as soon as Watson came back to him hed back playing with his "violin" as he called it.

But seriously, someone says its subtly gy: wheres the subtlety, in a song about a guy who calls on another guy and spends the night with him? How more obviously gay can it be?

I caannot believe some of the clueless comments on here. Some people twist any song to mean whats on ther mind. Like the one who interprets it as a neo-Marxist critique of "our unsatisfatory lives in Western societies" (speak for yourself, loser). As for it being a statement against going to college and getting a steeady job...doh! Its not people who go to college and get a steady job who run off to the big ciy thinking that youll get quick fame and fortune, as the song says "
And it's taken you so long to find out you were wrong, When you thought it held everything"

Au contraire, its those who reject the humdrum to chase their dreams that the song is patently about. Like the young woman whose run off to London to become a star and I wish would come back to me....! (True Story Moment).

Bwah! (saxophone wails).

    ------ About the song Baker Street performed by Gerry Rafferty

It's not officially summer time until Baker Street plays...this song has been special to me since I was a child hearing it for the first time in 1978 I was 9 years old. It still gives me the chills when I hear that sax play..... long live Baker Street, long live Gerry...!

    ------ About the song The Right Moment performed by Gerry Rafferty

So simple but so atmospheric. The briefest of introductions and conclusions, but what a beautiful melodic piano riff. The title of the the song appears in the second verse poem, but every word is delivered with just the perfect gravitas and majesty. An artist who is so much more than just Baker Street - a true master of his craft.

    ------ About the song Baker Street performed by Gerry Rafferty

When I heard this song I was 16 and didn't understand a ward yet I was sure that this song is one of the best ever written.....The music, guitar, sax gentle voice ....has everything. Even now after 33 years still is as good as ever, and that is what the reall rock is about. The meaning of the song could be different and so many people indentify themselves with it (hookers, homles, guy drifters etc.) and the god things is they are all right. The rock at it's best.