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Originally posted by ultra_agent9
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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This song reminds me of home, because Grafton is where I grew up
