"Shattered" is a song by The Rolling Stones from their 1978 album Some Girls. The song is a reflection of American lifestyles and life in 1970s-era New York City, but also influences from the English punk rock movement can be heard.

The band's lead vocalist and frontman, Mick Jagger, commented in a Rolling Stone magazine interview that he wrote the lyrics in the back of a New York cab. As the song moves along at a snappy pace set by guitarist Keith Richards and other band members, Jagger belts out the following excerpt:

"Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up

To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!

You got rats on the West Side

Bed bugs uptown

What a mess this town's in tatters, I've been shattered!

My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan"

"Shattered" was released as a single in the United States with cover art by illustrator Hubert Kretzschmar and in 1979 climbed to number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Rolling Stones performed the song live for an episode of "Saturday Night Live". It is still played by some radio stations to this day.

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