100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #25: Renaissance, The Captive Heart

After a sublime piano intro, Annie Haslam sings: “I made my dreams then lost them/They left and I went away.”  So begins a song which to me is the musical expression of the season of autumn, a sense of the passing of time with the acknowledgment of the future still to come.  This is one of Michael Dunford’s and Betty Thatcher’s most accomplished compositions (the images in this video are from my back garden and local forest in, er, autumn).

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