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Reed and Cale wrote the song at 6 AM on a Sunday after a night spent up on amphetamines, visiting an old college friend of Reed's. The song was the most polished on the album and was released as a single in December 1966, but it received little promotion and initially went unnoticed. It later gained popularity through radio play from DJs such as John Peel and Dick Summer, helping build the band's cult following.
The song describes the feeling of staying up all Saturday night into Sunday morning. Reed introduced a later live version as being about waking up after doing something sad and remembering it, and the text reads it as a song of regret and possible forgiveness.
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.