The Carpenters

"I remember a Carpenters song that came out when I was twelve. I didn't quite understand the song then, young as I was, but I knew that it had to do with birth and beautiful things that lay beyond me. And the song's joyous rhythm and bouyant melody, so full of optimism, ushered me into the shithouse of adolescence."

I've drawn my comb back and forth a few times over the above blurb that I've written for a Carpenters reissue, and I can't quite determine where it loses its way.