My parents spilt up when I was 15, and the fallout at home was very damaging.
I had a small 50cc motorbike and used to literally get lost in the myriad of little lanes in South Wales, where I was living at the time.
I drove into a forest and found a little lake, a place of peace. Often revisited, as I sat on the grass, gazing at the calm water.
I lost my innocence there when I was 16, moved away aged 19 to Eastbourne, and life since has certainly been a rollercoaster.
This song started out as a poem that I written, many years later, I blew the cobwebs off it, popped a chorus in, and the rest is history.
When I think of those I have loved and lost, and now very much alone, I often think, 'If I knew then, what I know now, I'd be, a different me'
Years later, I met my guitar buddy, John Dickens, who liked the line 'If I knew then, what I know now, I'd be, a different me',
As you will see and hear, he puts the magic fairy dust into the song with his wonderful guitar playing.