10 on the UK Singles Chart and helped the group's self-titled debut album reach No.

The song features only Julianne Regan's voice, acoustic guitars played by Tim Bricheno, and sound effects of ocean waves.

On its creation, Julianne Regan has said, in an interview on BBC radio, "This song happened by accident when we were recording the first album.

It was one of those things when we had the day off and we were sat in this very idyllic setting beneath a willow tree besides a stream by this beautiful residential recording studio and it just came out so naturally.

[3] The song is well known for an incident on the popular BBC UK music show Top of the Pops, when the group, ready to do a mimed (as was BBC policy at the time) performance of their hit, were not played the backing track through their monitors, so they sat motionless while the television and studio audience could hear the song.