Anatomy of a Song

I felt optimistic for the first time in years.

In relationships, shit sometimes happens

was—excuse my French—fucking rude,

Heart of Glass,” a seemingly impossible mash of punk and disco.

Underground in the 1960s, punk culture in the late 1970s was an indistinguishable swarm of dark conformity rather than a collection of pretty characters and individualists.

It’s not so much about a guy who achieves his dream, but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.