Lyric discussion by TinyTimFanClub 

John explained the meaning of the song at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco in 2012:

"I stopped playing this song because people thought it was about Jack Kevorkian, which it is not. It's about a malevolent force that runs around dispensing death in the guise of medicine — actual widespread death, not the merciful death of Jack Kevorkian."

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