Roger Waters says he ‘loves’ depressing song from Pink Floyd’s The Wall

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Roger Waters has praised one song from The Wall, saying he “loves” the depressing piece from Pink Floyd‘s 1979 release.

Bassist and songwriter Waters confirmed the song was one of his all-time favourites in an interview given after the release of The Wall. Waters has since suggested the song is not autobiographical, but rooted in his own experiences. Rather than being based on something which happened to him, Waters explained that the song Don’t Leave Me Now is based on “what I’ve observed.” In an interview given around the time of the album’s release, Waters said: “It’s a very depressing song. I love it! I really like it.”

Don’t Leave Me Now was released as a B-side to Run Like Hell in the lead-up to promote the release of The Wall. The song also features in the film adaptation of the Waters-penned project. Speaking to Jim Ladd about the song, Waters confirmed it was a song about “two people who have treated each other very badly”. He would comment further on the song in a separate interview, saying he saw part of himself in Don’t Leave Me Now, but that the song was not autobiographical.

Waters explained: “Well, a lot of men and women do get involved with each other for lots of wrong reasons, and they do get very aggressive towards each other, and do each other a lot of damage.

“I, of course, have never struck a woman, as far as I can recall, Tommy, and I hope I never do, but a lot of people have, and a lot of women have struck men as well, there is a lot of violence in relationships often that aren’t working. I mean, this is obviously an extremely cynical song, I don’t feel like that about marriage now.

“This is one of those difficult things where a small percentage of this is autobiographical, and all of it is rooted in my pown experience, but it isn’t my autobiography, although it’s rooted within my own experience, like any writing, some of it’s me and an awful lot of it is what I’ve observed.”

Though it was not a wholly autobiographical effort, Waters hoped that people could still learn from the song, suggesting there was something to “derive” from Don’t Leave Me Now. He added: “Well I hope so, if you look and see things and if they ring true, then those are the kind of things, if you’re interested in writing songs of books or poems or writing anything then those are the things that you try and write down, because those are the things that are interesting, and those are the things that will touch other people, which is what writing is all about, you know.

“Some people have a need to write down their own feelings in the hope that other people will recognise them, and derive some worth from them, whether it’s a feeling of kinship or whether it makes them happy, or whatever, they will derive something from it.”