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The 'Dan love miserable endings, and this is one of their rawest. In her attempts to be our poor narrator's angel, his therapist, Katy has become an addict herself. He finds "Doctor Wu" (dope) in Katy's eyes. When he finds her, he finds that she's been lying.
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It's obvious-he's looking for her everywhere, after all, all through the slums ("Biscayne Bay"), looking for that "song," that bit of reinforcement/brainwashing they gave one another. Sometime during that astounding alto sax solo, Katy has "left" him. Something happens to our narrator while he's talking to Doctor Wu. :>)īut even then things don't seem right, somehow, so he gets to talking to his dope, his heroin, who, as I said, is "Doctor Wu." The doctor is his old buddy, so the narrator is just checking in, making sure he's still there, still the same old "ordinary" cat as before.
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They're trying to use a little positive reinforcement, or brainwashing, however you see it. He hangs out with Katy, and they "sing that stupid song"-probably here that means telling themselves over and over again how everything is going to be okay. Then he meets Katy, whom he believes will help him through this time, maybe get him clean, whatever. I see this song as being about an addict, the narrator, who is really down on his luck, really poor, a big bum off his friends ("just when I'd spent the last piaster I could borrow") in order to finance his addiction. This may seem weird, but stick it out with me. I think that it is "Doctor Wu," not "Katy," who is heroin personified. Fagen has said in many interviews online, however, that while heroin abuse is a major part of this song, the FOCUS of the song is on the "love-triangle" between the narrator, "Katy," and "Doctor Wu." General CommentLike HexKaster said, this song is about heroin abuse.