Half an hour later, he picked his guitar and began to play one of his favourite songs: Defying Gravity – the Glee version. The music lifted his spirits and made his heart feel like it might burst out of his chest at any moment. The words made him feel like he was bigger than the whole world, like he could take over and make it a better place than it was. He could get rid of drunks – not just the violent ones, all of them – and people who beat girls up for the sake of it.