When I first started writing songs I would record the process on cassettes on a Philips portable recording machine. Over the years I produced many unfinished songs and the cassettes would end up collecting dust and gradually be forgotten. This is the story of one of the tapes.

Many thanks to Briareus for the wonderful vocal by Emily. I have used it many times but it never fails to weave a magic spell. Thanks to the blue boy for the great sax


I wrote a song for sweet Lorraine
Put it in an envelope stuck it in a draw and there it remained
Until 15 years later someone found it when I’d moved home

The people living in the house they were young
They made some enquiries and thought it might be fun
To track the writer down and give him back the song

And so it was I remembered sweet Lorraine
And so it was I remembered sweet Lorraine

The phone rang twice in my front hall
A womans voice asked me what I was called
Then she whispered I think I’ve found your heart

I took the train to where I’d once belonged
The place I’d left when everything went wrong
And found the memory of the man I once had been

And so it was I remembered sweet Lorraine
And so it was I remembered sweet Lorraine