| Lucy Leave | |
| Cover: | Lucy Leave single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Pink Floyd |
| A-Side: | Lucy Leave |
| B-Side: | I'm a King Bee |
| Written: | May 1965 |
| Released: | 2015 |
| Recorded: | September–December 1965 |
| Genre: | Rock and roll, rhythm and blues, rock |
"Lucy Leave" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. The song is one of the first written by the band and was not released until 2015 in the EP and in 2016 in The Early Years 1965–1972 box set. The song was featured on the 1965–1967 CAMBRIDGE ST/ATION CD as the first track and featured most of Pink Floyd's original lineup of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Bob Klose.[1]
Lucy Leave was written in 1965[2] (though Nick Mason wrote that it was written in December 1964)[3] by Syd Barrett,[4] the song is about a relationship with a girlfriend and wanting to break up but at the same time being clingy and loving to her. This was one of the first songs written by the band which was called 'The Tea Set' at the time.[5] Barrett played rhythm guitar and was on vocals, Waters was on bass guitar, Mason on drums and Klose on lead solo guitar, the song did not feature Richard Wright playing keyboard. "Lucy Leave" was released unofficially as a single without a label, The B-side featured the song "I'm A King Bee".[6] It was recorded in late 1965 (September–December).
In Echoes : The Complete History of Pink Floyd, Glenn Povey writes that "Lucy Leave" "shows the band performing a very straightforward R&B style". In Reinventing Pink Floyd : From Syd Barrett to the Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp further states the song is "based upon a familiar R&B melodic line" but is nevertheless distinctive due to its "start-and-stop sections of the melody [...] and the slightly non-standard [...] chord choices".
The song has a simple chord sequence, the intro goes from the chords E7, D, C and then the main chords which are E and A repeating. The chorus has C, D and B as the chords. For most of the song a solo is played by Bob Klose and a main guitar solo is played after the 3rd verse.