Written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb in 1967 and released in 1968 on the album Horizontal, it is also featured as the B-side of "And the Sun Will Shine" in France.
According to Bruce Eder of Allmusic, "the song descends into an even more emotionally melodramatic mood than "And the Sun Will Shine"".
[2] Its first version (which featured piano instead of organ as the song was written on and ultimately released with) was recorded on November 28th at IBC Studios.
This track was Robin's musical response to his involvement in the Hither Green rail crash, a resigned meditation on trying reach out to someone as Robin explained: "I was in the Hither Green train crash, and it’s kind of a song after that".
Robin added: "It was kind of about our relationship at the time, so it had a personal tone to it, We nearly got killed.