Marianne Faithfull will give her 1999 album, Vagabond Ways, the deluxe treatment with a reissue due out March 4. She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s "Incarceration of a Flower Child", a song Roger Waters wrote in 1968 but never recorded with Pink Floyd.

On the demo, Faithfull sings along to a backdrop of acoustic guitars and one buzzy electric as she describes a scene of drinking cheap wine and smoking dope on Indian tapestry cushions. "Don’t get up to answer the door, just stay with me here on the floor," she belts. "It’s going to get cold in the Seventies." The studio version that appeared on Vagabond Ways sounds more polished thanks to electronics played by co-producer Mark Howard and synth bass by Waters.

She reflected on her enduring friendship with Waters in a 2014 Rolling Stone feature when she recorded another one of his songs, "Sparrows Will Sing", for her Give My Love to London album. "He’s one of my dearest friends, and I love him and he’s everything a real gentleman rock star should be," she said. "He’s not a misogynist. He is not only in it for the money. He is a great man."

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Roger Waters — Incarceration of a Flower Child

Do you remember me? How we used to be helpless and happy and blind?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap wine
Laying on the living-room floor on those Indian tapestry cushions you made
Thinking of calling our first born Jasmine or Jade

Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to me,
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about what it might be
Don't get up to answer the door, just stay with me here on the floor
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's

You wouldn't listen, you thought you knew better, you just had to speak to that man
Please believe me, I'll visit whenever I can
There in your little white room with no windows and three square sedations a day
You deal with the doctor who's running the show
"Please don't take Jasmine away and leave me alone."

Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to me
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about what it might be
Don't get up to answer the door, just stay with me here on the floor
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's

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