The Narrow Way

"The Narrow Way" is a section on the studio half of Pink Floyd's fourth album Ummagumma. It was written by David Gilmour and is divided into three parts.

Part 1 of the song was called "Baby Blues Shuffle in D minor" when played by the band on a BBC broadcast on December 2nd, 1968; it also strongly resembles the tracks "Rain in the Country (take 1)" and "Unknown Song" recorded (but eventually not used) for the soundtrack of Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point in November/December 1969. Part 3 of the song was incorporated into The Man and the Journey on their 1969 tour.

The song is divided into three sections on the album, with each part having a different sound and tempo.

Part One (3:27) is an acoustic instrumental piece by David Gilmour. It features some spacy sounds over the acoustic guitar.

Part Two (2:53) is an eerie electric guitar piece. Like Part One, it has sounds over the guitar in some parts.

Part Three (5:57) features David Gilmour on vocals with some soft electric guitar notes from Part One.

At one point, Gilmour had the whole song written down, except for the lyrics. He then went to see Roger Waters and asked him to write lyrics for his song. Waters simply replied: "No."