"The Loneliest Guy" is a song written by David Bowie in 2003 for his album Reality.
It's a slow-tempo minimalistic piece in which, according to James E. Perone, "Bowie's character also lives in denial: in spite of the shards of glass that he finds near his windows, the solitary life he lives, and 'all the pages that have turned,' he expresses the belief that he is not 'the loneliest guy' in the world, but, rather, 'the luckiest guy'.
"[1] The biographer also writes: "The slow, solemn pace of the piece, the long phrases sung with a slowly pulsing vibrato suggest a profound sadness.
"[2] Lou Reed praised the song, writing for Rolling Stone: "He's always changing, so you never get tired of what he's doing.
It's almost too much to ask for, the ageless, timeless, faultless, flawless Bowie in a vocal storm of versatility [...]"[4] According to Chris O'Leary:[5] Production