In tone it was truly a one-off. The verses were charged with a kind of erotic mania that resonated all too sharply with my own contemporary funk. Its characters were deformed by desire, and thus the song blew familiar notes through the slutty arcades of my middle-aged brain. It was about lust, betrayal, sexual jealousy—it was meat and drink to me. It informed me that there had been others before as deranged by matters of the heart and loins as I was now. This was a tremendous relief and consolation.
