Janie Runaway

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Janie Runaway is a song by the jazz fusion/rock group Steely Dan, which is featured on their 2000 album Two Against Nature.

At first glance the lyrics read like an optimistic love song, with the narrator singing the praises of his new love "Janie"; but a closer examination reveals a relationship between a female (and likely underage) runaway youth and a jaded wealthy New York City roue who, by song's end, alternately threatens and bribes Janie into joining him for an out-of-state 'threesome' weekend with another young woman. The song makes a reference to the Mann Act with the line, "Or would that be a federal case?"