![]() Oddly enough, for a song that actually soundtracks a happy ending, it’s about a breakup. “If You Leave” comes from the perspective of a narrator who knows that the end of a relationship is near and is asking for just a little more time before the final cut. Once Hughes heard it the next morning, he was blown away, which meant that OMD had to get back to the studio on just a few hours sleep to polish up the track for an official recording. In around 14 hours, McCluskey and Humphreys wrote “If You Leave” and created a rough mix. ![]() Hence, they couldn’t go too complex with the lyrics, instead focusing on just churning out what McCluskey humbly calls a “craftsman” song. Because Hughes was on a time crunch to finish the picture, the band had no choice but to hustle to a rented studio and work out a new song. You heard that right: In the initial version of Pretty in Pink, Ringwald’s character ended up with Cryer’s Duckie, but audiences weren’t having it.
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