Lover, Leaver

Lover, Leaver is the fifth track on digital copies of Greta Van Fleet's debut studio album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army. It was released as the album's third promotional single, and is a short edit of the full version, Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer).

Background
The full song version was written and performed live around 2014 under the name "Lover Leaver Taker Believe Her". The studio version was produced in 2018 for the band's debut studio album, 'Anthem of the Peaceful Army', and two versions have been released: the full six-minute version (with an extended psychedelic jamming and improvisational outro) under a new reformulated name called Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer), available on both physical and digital copies; and the three-minute version as a promotional single, available only on digital copies.

It was the third promotional single to be released from the album, on September 21, 2018, after singles When the Curtain Falls and Watching Over.

Jake Kiszka said about the songwriting, "generic arrangements get boring, and that song has a journey to it."

About the song
The song's genre was described as hard and blues rock, with having classic rock vibes. Musically, it was also described as "swaggering", "groove-filled" , with "crunchy guitars and psychedelic melodies". Josh Kiszka's vocals were described as "emotive crooning" with moments of "low to high skyscraping falsetto" and "siren-like howls"

Its lyrics covers topics as love of a woman, and dealings with the devil, Satan. The reference to “witch of Endor raised” is from the Hebrew bible, I Samuel 28, in which a woman summons the prophet Samuel at the demand of King Saul, who had sent believers and diviners away before he sought one for his own needs.

Trivia

 * Loudwire ranked the song ninth best hard rock song of 2018, on "The 40 Best Hard Rock Songs of 2018".