[3] In an interview on ITV's The South Bank Show aired on 24 June 2007, Faithfull said that her interpretation was that Lucy climbs to the rooftop but gets taken away by "the man who reached and offered her his hand" in an ambulance ("long white car") to a psychiatric hospital, and that the final lines ("At the age of thirty-seven she knew she'd found forever / As she rode along through Paris with the warm wind in her hair ...") are actually in her imagination at the hospital.
[4] The official music video for the song features Faithfull alone, smartly dressed and with coiffured hair adorned with ornate golden oak leaves.
An alternate promotional 12-minute music video was also created, which was directed by Derek Jarman and features the tracks "Witches Song", "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" and "Broken English" and features Faithfull walking around the centre of London while the songs play one after another the background - the Broken English segment is interspersed with footage from World War 2.
[5][better source needed] Smash Hits said, "The Debbie Harry of the sixties returns to vinyl with an honestly outstanding offering, a version of an old Doctor Hook number related over a swimming synthesiser.
"[6] AllMusic noted Faithfull's "faint vocal approach accompanied by the lone synthesizer emanates an eerie candor throughout the song's duration.