"Morph the Cat" has political overtones. Think about it. Fagen is a NYC'er, who was hit hard by 9/11. But he's far from a Bush fan. I read somewhere that originally Morph was a good guy, a guy who creeps into NYC and helps them to be able to forget 9/11, to forget terror and agony and death, for a while. But when Fagen was writing this, Morph automatically took on a sinister edge--becoming, as Arbiter suggests, a brain-washer.
To me, "Morph" is a sinister little song about escapism, brainwashing, etc. I think it also takes a bit of a parody on the idea of "the Rapture."
"Morph the Cat" has political overtones. Think about it. Fagen is a NYC'er, who was hit hard by 9/11. But he's far from a Bush fan. I read somewhere that originally Morph was a good guy, a guy who creeps into NYC and helps them to be able to forget 9/11, to forget terror and agony and death, for a while. But when Fagen was writing this, Morph automatically took on a sinister edge--becoming, as Arbiter suggests, a brain-washer.
To me, "Morph" is a sinister little song about escapism, brainwashing, etc. I think it also takes a bit of a parody on the idea of "the Rapture."
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