Folksy psychodelilah, acoustic guitar, mighty flanges on kelvin's electric, Samantha and Marilyn giving it their all, Wonkfloosh at the controls. Even some stringy synth on the choruses. Whats happened here?

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Back in the mid 1980’s I was a student in Northern Ireland. After fresher’s week I had made a deep impression in an English girl (what with my accent and whisky consumption etc). She often invited me to go down South. I even visited her and her sisters and their bizarrely religious mother in Oxford. We even went to the states, met her dad and spent a summer working illegally on Cape Cod where we split up. October memories…

You know it seems the more I think the less I can remember
I mostly don’t remember you at all
But somehow each October the years just disappear
I dreamed last night that I could hear you call

October winds are blowing and whispering your name
Our memories lasted longer than our dreams
And Caledonia dreamin’ disnae really ease the pain
‘Cos nothin’ was as easy as it seemed

We drank a lot of whisky and we talked a lot that night
You liked the way I spoke I liked your smell
A cold grey dawn was breaking as I walked home in the rain
With nobody there to catch me I just fell

I phoned you up from Ulster and I caught a bus to Oxford
Your mother was a Christian and a fool
So we flew to see your father and he drove us to Manhattan
Then we split up in Hyannis, I was cruel (sorry about that)

Memories I can’t recall and feelings best forgotten
I drove to Kinloch Rannoch yesterday
On forty miles of bad road with my spirits at rock bottom
I watched the Tummel flow into the Tay.