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Don't Leave Me Now Lyrics

Ooooh, babe
Don't leave me now.
Don't say it's the end of the road.
Remember the flowers I sent.

I need you, babe
To put through the shredder
In front of my friends
Ooooh babe.

Don't leave me now.
How could you go?
When you know how I need you
To beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
Ooooh babe, don't leave me now.

How can you treat me this way?
Running away.
Ooooh babe,
Why are you running away?
Oooooh babe!
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It's pretty obvious that Pink's being abusive to his wife here. If not physically then mentally. But he says things that make you assume both are going on. Examples:

"How could you go/when you know how I need you/to beat to a pulp on a Saturday night"

"I need you babe/to put through the shredder/in front of my friends"

But throughout, he thinks he's the victim. It's his right to dominate his wife and she shouldn't be leaving him because he's exercising his dominance. He also thinks he's giving enough in return: "Remember the flowers I sent?"

The phone call at the end is his wife having moved to England and shacked up with another man. This man has been warned of Pink's antics and the new man doesn't want "Mrs. Floyd" to have anything to do with Pink anymore.

I must say, I agree with the new guy's sentiments...

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This song is basically about an abusive relationship. The abuser (who takes the form of a male, but lets not be too stuck on genders here) is being left by his significant other, he finds some way to keep this person back, and then abuses them. It goes on like this, until the victim finally runs away. A very well written song making the listener feel as though the protagonist is the victim.

You're viewing the song as a single story, when the entire album is it's own story, which this song plays into. Watch the movie, it helps put it in perspective.

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At the end of goodbye blue sky, allfloyd.com's lyrics read: "'The 11:15 from Newcastle is now approaching' "The 11:18 arrival....'"

Wich means the girlsfriend moved to the US.

Then in Young Lust, Pink tries to call her, but a man answers (her new boyfriend) and hangs up.

[Phone rings..Clink of receiver being lifted] "Hello..?" "Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd. Will you accept the charges from United States?" [clunk! of phone being put down] "Oh, He hung up! That's your residence, right? I wonder why he hung up? Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife there to answer?" [Phone rings again...clunk of receiver being picked up] "Hello?" "This is United States calling, are we reaching... [interrupted by phone being put down] "See he keeps hanging up, and it's a man answering." [whirr of connection being closed]

The end of goodbye blue sky is probably just ambient television noise, as is present throughout most of the album and movie when Pink is in his apartment.

Pink is trying to call his wife, not girlfriend. He's married, as shown in the movie. His wife is cheating on him. You were close in that respect, though.

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It ties in with "One of My Turns". The girlfriend is a bitch, she abuses Pink, and one day, he finally snaps and "attacks" her. She runs away at the end, and Pink feels sorry he did what he did. At least i think that's what this all means..

Watch the Wall. It's not his girlfriend. The girl in his room is a groupie he brings back after finding out his wife is cheating on him.

She doesn't abuse Pink. Actually, you pretty much reinforced the point here. Pink blames others for his problems.

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he knows that she's leaving because he has been absusive and done lots of horrible things to her (also in front of his friends). He's begging her not to leave but knows he's gonna do it again because he's crazy...really a sad song

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There are a lot of good comments here, with meaningful interpretations. I'd just like to add a few things and sum up what I think is the meaning of the song:

Although we aren't inclined to believe that Pink abused his wife physically, the song leads us to assume that he has, as the line goes, "To beat to a pulp on a Saturday night." We don't have any other evidence suggesting he hasn't physically beaten his wife, although I agree that the line "To put through the shredder" probably does refer to emotional abuse. Also, I'd like to point out that when people are discussing what Pink could have done to his wife that made her leave, find another man, and refuse his calls (we assume she knew who was calling), they think that he had an emotional wall around himself that made her upset. She couldn't get through to him because of his wall. That isn't correct. I'd like to quote wikipedia.org for the correct interpretation:

"He eventually gets married, but he and his wife grow apart and she has an affair while Pink is on tour. When Pink learns of the affair, he compensates with expensive materialistic possessions and turns to a willing groupie (Jenny Wright), only to trash the hotel room and drive her away."

Somehow I don't think she knew who was calling, or her new boyfriend didn't tell her when he answered the phone. Sure, she was cheating on her husband, but I feel like she would have answered if she knew it was him, because she spent so long trying to connect and communicate and now he's doing it for her.

Orrrr, she was just being mean and not answering. shrug

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Such a pearl on this album, who says psychedelia is only cool in 67, I love the stillness yet manic approach to this song, I can still smell all the ganja we used to light up and listen to this album, as for the meaning, it’s at the surface, needs no real explanation, god I love me some roger in this song

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When did she abuse Pink?

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The song is about his wife leaving him for cheating on her and in revange she goes and sleeps with another guy. He finds out that she is cheating on him when he calls and a man answers the phone.

He didn't cheat on her, she cheated on him, that's it.

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I always thought this was to do with his mother, hence the 'oh babe' and the song is sung in the style of his mother. However it would make more sense if it were his wife singing it...interesting.

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