Doctor Wu

This is the best song about heroin addiction ever written.

Dr. Wu is the dealer, and the protagonist in the song is lamenting the fact that she (the goddess of addiction) has brought the supposedly invulnerable Dr. Wu to his knees.

He'll be waiting for that taste quite some time now, I suppose.

I've always imagined him lying in some bed, staring at the ceiling fan, like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. Except with the cold sweats.

When I told him what it was about, you could see it die in his eyes.

It should be noted also that it was Walter Becker who dannye refers to; he for many years battled (that's what they say now, right?) heroin addiction.