Steely Dan Only a fool would say that with lyrics on screen

Only a fool would say that from Cant buy a thrill has two references to John Lennon, or at least the Beatles: imagine and brown shoes (although Old Brown Shoe was written by George Harrison, but who shared Lennon s hippie utopia mindset), as well as references deriding his vision in Imagine of everyone living freely and You may say I m a dreamer in the line A man with a dream. I think the gun reference unhand that gun begone, there s no one to fire it upon replies to pointing fingers at others (as pointing at others tends to look like the gun position kids use when playing cops and robbers) and that there s no one who is deserving of blame (having the accusation targeted at them). Thus the if he s holding it high, he s telling a lie means if he s pointing it at those high up, especially someone who would hold a bedin protest at the Amsterdam Hilton, like Lennon,