Fuck You Lucy

These are lyrics from the end of 20 answers from Felt, which is Slug and Murs.

Murs-[Alright, who-is-Lucy?] Slug-She’s the extra that gets to play the devil in my movies She’s around, uptown, sipping a beer smoothie

Lucy, from my interpretations does not have any one true defined meaning. I feel that by using Lucy, it allows all listeners a chance to use the music and apply it to their current situation. That is why Lucy is so big for him. It makes all kinds of people with all kinds of ideas of what, or who Lucy is feel as if they know what Slug is talking about. That feel of relating makes us attach even stronger to the music. Its funny how everyone wants to know what he was thinking about. I came on here to hear what this song made a few other people feel.

For me, this song represents my battle with alcohol. I got a tattoo that says warning, and I interpret Lucy as the negative influence inside myself. I look at the tattoo everyday in the mirror, and it helps me so that I stay away from that influence, and don't wake up sober after a night of alcohol/drugs and upset at myself.

I know this is probably an abstract interpretation, but thats the beauty of music. We take what we want from it. Thanks for reading!

cheeseburgers is right. slug has said himself that most songs he writes that people think are about girls are actually disguised allegories. this one is about the direction hip hop is going and where he fits in it. In the song doomage by non prophets that features slug, he goes as far to say "lucy is hip hop..."

it's true, Slug himself has also said that Lucy is not a real person, she isn't anybody, and when he uses Lucy in a song, he isn't even talking about a person she is just an allegory...

Listen to the song and read the lyrics. This is all about how his audience just can't get enough of Lucy, how he got stuck writing tons of songs about her because thats what people wanted, and he never intended Lucy to "define his existence", THIS IS about how she is completely misinterpreted.

this song is great i got no comment on what it means... but did anyone notice at exactly 1 minute there is a girl talking in the background. Can't tell what she's saying or nothing but it's kinda wack

so everybody who says 'lucy' is an allegory must be shitfaced, or stupid because how so when he says "fuck you lucy for leaving me, fuck you lucy for not needing me"

i dont think 'hip hop' can stop needing him.

From the mouth of Sean Daley himself:

Slug (real name Sean Daley) told Pollstar Lucy Ford was originally a play on the name Lucifer and represented the female devil.

"When I wrote Lucy and when I was writing about Lucy, I thought that Lucy represented the dichotomy between me and women and my own flaws as to why I couldn’t maintain a meaningful relationship, as well as the type of women I was attracted to,” Slug said.

“In retrospect, when I look back on it, 10 years later, I’m like ‘Man, by no means were any of those women in my life really so bad that they deserved to be demonized.’ Really, I think what I was demonizing was myself and my own codependency on alcohol, drama, marijuana, sex, validation, the whole validating game. … I really don’t think any of these people were bad people. I think that more so, I was caught inside of cycles I couldn’t break, going from one codependent relationship to another to the point where it just kind of swaddled me and it’s what I decided to rap about.”

I've always connected Lucy to relationships. It makes sense to me somewhat as it meaning hip hop. I do feel most songs he is talking about relationships. Obviously women have had a huge effect on Slug's life, it's understandable that there are many songs about them and more specifically, Jacob's mother. Maybe when he says Lucy is hip hop - he is referring to how he is Lucy - she defines his existence. He is hip hop? Just a thought. I do think that he probably uses it to reference hip hop in songs as well just like he does to drug addictions etc...

wtf no comment the most fuckin ahh i love this song

Awesome song. I can identify and so can many people I know. Dont you love it when you cant make yourself hate someone ?

crazy song man.

This song is absolutely amazing. I don't even like rap music, i hate the way it sounds, and yet the first thing i thought was "oh my god, this is so beautiful." The deepest pain is hating someone you love...being so jaded as to hate love its self. He hates how he can't make himself not be in love with her. She's consumed him entirely: "Fuck you Lucy for defining my existence" My favorite is the stanza that begins with "Gettin' in a million memories just to forget her" and ends with "No, I'm not okay, and I don't know what to do" That's exactly how it feels.....exactly. I would have been more well written but i'm flustered. David, if you read this, thank you for sending me this song. -Jenna