Don't Leave Me Now (Pink Floyd song)
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8 December 1979 (US)
| "Don't Leave Me Now" | |
|---|---|
 B-side of "Run Like Hell" | |
| Single by Pink Floyd | |
| from the album The Wall | |
| A-side | "Run Like Hell" |
| Published | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
| Released | 30 November 1979 (UK) 8 December 1979 (US) |
| Recorded | April–November 1979 |
| Genre | Progressive rock |
| Length | 4:08 |
| Label | Harvest (UK) Columbia (US) |
| Songwriter | Roger Waters |
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"Don't Leave Me Now" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd.[1] It appears on The Wall album (1979) and was released as a B-side on the single of "Run Like Hell".[2] A 12" single of "Run Like Hell," "Don't Leave Me Now" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" peaked at #57 on the Disco Top 100 chart in the U.S.[3]
The main section of "Don't Leave Me Now", recorded with synthesizer bass, organ, piano, and a delay-treated guitar, does not adhere to one single key, but rather cycles slowly through four dissonant and seemingly-unrelated chords, for two measures of each: An E augmented chord, followed by a D flat major seventh chord, a B flat dominant seventh chord with a suspended second, followed by a G Major chord, which, after one bar, augments its fifth, before returning to the beginning of the progression. The first three chords all sustain the notes G♯/A♭ and C, and this interval is then lowered chromatically by one semitone for the conclusion on G Major. Furthermore, the roots of this chord progression (E, D♭, B♭, and G) outline the intervals of a diminished seventh chord. The roots relate to each other as a pair of tritones - the E and B♭ form one tritone, and the D♭ and G form the other. Musicologist and author Phil Rose described this section of the song as "entirely non-functional harmonically" and stated that "[M]ost of the time when a phrase ends, Waters is either singing one of the most dissonant notes in the accompanying chord, or a non-chord tone."[4][5] There is no percussion, and the tempo is very slow.
In the second section, drums, bass, and guitar enter, and the music becomes more consonant, resolving to the key of A minor through the use of D and A suspended second chords, as David Gilmour sings a refrain of "Ooh, babe".
