Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Time: 2:46
Make love to these women
Languid and bittersweet
I'll rise when the sun goes down

lethargic; lacking spirit or liveliness
Heard in 33 songs (4.3M+ combined views) — most famously in "Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan.
Updated August 25, 2026
Time: 2:46
Make love to these women
Languid and bittersweet
I'll rise when the sun goes down

Time: 2:03
Lights on the stones on backed up drain
Warped lovers loosed on languid stain
We've come together to gather stars

Time: 0:19
Imagining curving letters
In a languid psalm
In abstract time

Time: 1:20
The great god within Busiris
Those amongst the languid ones fear him
Having gone forth unto the shambles of the god

Time: 2:37
Morganna art thou near me?
Languid, I wend my path to grave
Cast my sword to the sulphyd grasp

Time: 7:51
What do I hear when you're gone?
The sighing of the languid grief
Cold creeps in

Time: 0:47
Honeycomb
And several languid thoughts will surface like honey dew drops forming new
And I will feel compelled to say

Time: 3:30
This morning is amazing and so are you
You are languid and lovely and lazy
And what doesn't kill you

Time: 0:00
(Jim? Jack? Jeffrey?)
No, it's just that I'm languid.
(Well, how do you do? It's nice to know ya).

Time: 2:10
The structure of our world and preach hate
Drifting out of languid boredom
To destroy the structure of our kingdom

Time: 0:10
Easy places to get away to
Easy limbs languid all around you
All my time, yeah dirt on your hands

Time: 1:01
Movement improvement, smooth shit, you grooving, you a winner
Aqua-walking, languid-talking, just stepped in the cleaners
Upper levels, precious metals drip your neck and fingers

Time: 11:05
In ceaseless erosion
In the languid sand
The seeds of pain

Time: 1:38
They come to me red, your kisses, almost burn me
Profoundly sweet, your eyes, languid face
They come to me red, your kisses, almost burn me

Time: 0:58
See how it lays
languid and slow
Never noticing

Time: 0:45
Will my kingdom comfort me?
Of reject my languid soul
♪

Time: 0:51
I felt so at ease
You had a languid disposition
I had an willingness to please

Time: 0:57
Together we have discovered
The languid fatigue of love
Interrogated all our beauty

Time: 0:39
And walk with me
Papery skin and languid nights
Late night swims among the pines

Time: 0:14
Shade is dark
Cool and languid for life or long
Safe in shadow, it's never as dark as the daylight

Time: 1:34
(Ah ah, ah) procreation without gain or purpose
(Ah ah, ah) languid wills and torpid minds
(Ah ah, ah, ah) catapulted ever faster

Time: 0:49
♪
I ease myself from under your languid arm
I fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm

Time: 1:44
Oh, oh, oh
I will mesmerize with milky thighs and languid eyes
I'll prophesize your moans and sighs

Time: 0:52
They follow the coast and through the gate where
Gold is coated with gold on the languid hills
Where they wait for hours and hours

Time: 0:30
But my love and I are listless and weary
We're laid-back and languid, it's gone on so long
That our languor of love's just a limitless theory

Time: 4:43
Released from fears that hold me down
Torpid and drowned and languid
So come, step through my head again

Time: 2:17
It's a foregone conclusion
It's a languid delusion
♪

Time: 1:05
A palm in the dirt
We'll hold ourselves entwined, languid and wilting
My oh my, my breath is in tatters

Time: 2:15
Give it away
Languid mandalla of the ceiling fan
Teases the air like a slow stroking hand

Time: 0:24
Languid fawn, tranquil and bereft
Birthed of a womb inanimate

Time: 1:38
Fleeting rendezvous once more we meet
In languid embrace our passions sweet
Words flow freely time we steal

Time: 1:23
What have I failed to do
Some permanent hue of feeling languid in lieu of the old tried and true
A wounded soul

Time: 1:59
'Til we sat upon their withers and became the local kids
Down languid lanes we left our loss
In their ditches, grief was rid
