Lavender was the surprise hit of the Misplaced Childhood album. Although muscially, Mark Kelly's main haunting keyboard theme was to form quite a lot of the skeleton of side one of the album, the lyric which was based on this 12th Century pop song, was never expected to take it into the heady heights that it actually went to. It reminds me a lot of the Berlin days. I was crossed between the Bohemian and the Romantic, in walking about public parks with a Sony Walkman on, listening to Joni Mitchell songs, and dreaming of bumping into the girl that would eventually turn round and become the one that I would love forever, my wife etc., etc. We started doing it again on the acoustic tour. I never really enjoyed doing the straightforward rock version, but on the acoustic tour, there was a 'bluesy'ness that came out of it, that I wanted to explore more, and again it was decided that we would go in and record this one up at the Funny Farm, and the version that's on the Yang album is the one that I feel fits the soul of the song better than the original.