"Everything You Did" is a 1976 song from Steely Dan's The Royal Scam. In it, a man tells a woman whom he suspects of cheating on him that she must confess to him. Though we never hear the actual confession, the narrator's reaction indicates that he is more aroused than angered by her confession; it an ironic twist, he shifts from demanding she "tell [him] everything you did" to demanding she "do [to him] everything you did."
In the song, a lyric says to "turn up The Eagles, the neighbors are listening." Later that year in a nod back to Steely Dan for the free publicity,[1] and inspired by Steely Dan's lyric style,[2] the Eagles penned the lyrics, "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" in their hit "Hotel California". Timothy B. Schmit, who played bass on The Royal Scam and two other Steely Dan albums, would later join the Eagles.
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