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Just as Meridae'n said, "Flame Trees" hits it home for me and always has...
"Written about Grafton where Don spent most of his formative years. The song was inspired by a girl whom Don had known in his youth and who "doesn't live there anymore". Grafton is actually known as the Jacaranda City but it had acquired flame trees as a result of a television program called The Flame Trees of Thaw which starred Hayley Mills, an old flame of the lyricist's dreams, and the flora stuck. It's a song of lost love, of mortality and what's left behind. Steve Prestwich's melody and Don Walker's words. Appropriately, the band's last hit."
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Champaigne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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