Ships (Where Were You)
"Ships (Where Were You)" is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country, written by Stuart Adamson (lyrics, music) and Bruce Watson (music). The song was originally recorded for and included on the band's fifth studio album No Place Like Home (1991). It was then re-recorded for their following album, The Buffalo Skinners (1993), and released as the album's second single. "Ships (Where Were You)" reached number 29 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 75 for three weeks. In a 1991 interview for the Big Country fanzine Inwards, Adamson described "Ships" as being "about people that think they get passed by, by things, because everybody does at certain times". Background "Ships" was originally recorded for the band's fifth studio album No Place Like Home (1991) as a piano and vocal-based track, with a string quartet. As they were not happy with the original version, the band decided to re-record the song for their next album, The Buffalo Skinners, and give it the "guitar treatment". Watson told the Lennox Herald in 1993, "We didn't like how 'Ships' and 'We're Not in Kansas' turned out. Our relationship with Phonogram Records was at an all-time low and we simply