Gerry Rafferty’s Baker St, the song that created at least a decade of work for sax players, has just so much exultation in its final bars.
When you wake up, it's a new morning
The sun is shining, it's a new morning
You're going, you're going home
Gerry Rafferty knew his bars. The song talks about a friend who’s gonna give up the booze and the mood of that last verse is fresh resolve and promise. But the feeling of liberation he was writing about was getting free of music business sharks, not quitting the booze like his buddy.
The booze never let Gerry Rafferty go. He only made 63 before it killed him.
