This song was written for my friends who lost their daughter Flynne to cancer. Flynne was a singer and a musician, the day after meeting her parents at their home in The Lake District, I sat down in the tall grass of the garden and wrote this song. The words came so quickly that it felt like they we're coming from somewhere else, from Flynne herself. She was there when I came to record it too, filling the studio with sunlight for the length of the song on a grey winters day.

All money raised from this singles' sales on Bandcamp will go to the Flynne's Barn Retreat for young people living with cancer.

This song is an old friend to me now, first recorded for my debut album The Boy & The Mountain back in 2020, inspired by a fireside conversation at a festival with someone who took the big step and left the old ways that didn't fit her behind, for a new life in the wild. I wanted to document how this songs' sounds now, how it has changed and grown into itself over the years. It felt fitting to bring the song full circle for this record.

The song is a window into a chapter in my life, I'd been working for Fix The Fells for seven years that point, repairing the upland footpaths of the North Lakes in anything the weather would throw at us. We'd just had the wettest summer season I'd ever known, working at -5 on Midsummer's Day. The mountain is completely indifferent to human suffering, and I wanted to capture that wild indifference in the song. You have a problem? Go tell it on the mountain, see if it cares. Nature can be a great leveller and problems that exist in the modern world cease to be a problem at -5.

The song began life as I was taking a load of washing out to hang on the line, I remember singing the line 'I want that crazy kind of love, the one that falls down from above', leaving the washing where it was, running for my guitar and hitting voice record on my phone. I didn't have time to write, the song was coming too fast. I played it though and sang pretty much every line you hear on the recorded version. This one definitely did fall down from above.