"It was written yesterday, band routining it today, and it will go straight into the live set. The pace and improvisation that excites me so, also what I have been missing for ever so long. Precisely the reason I needed to initiate Lostboy! AKA, it reminds me of the early days of the Minds when we would write a song one day and play it live the next night. No fears ever. Just beautiful!" - Jim 12th May 2010

Written during the rehearsals for the first Lostboy! tour, and performed live on the first night, Broken Glass Park was scheduled for the second Lostboy! album. Until it was recorded by Simple Minds. "Although written for Lostboy! AKA both Charlie and I wanted to hear the Minds do this. Made sense to me since the lyric is written about our teenage years when we used to hang around Queen Park In Glasgow. Magical and mystical - Broken Glass Park is perhaps one of our best songs ever! Our Strawberry Fields" - Jim, 10th September.

"In Bruxelles but I am listening to the final of mix of Broken Glass Park that was just completed in London earlier today. I have one word only... stunning!!!" - Jim, 30th September.

The song featured heavily during the Greatest Hits Forest Tour where it was one of two new songs (the other being Stagefright.)

"[Broken Glass Park] was written last year for Lostboy! AKA but when Charlie Burchill liked it so much we decided that Simple Minds would "nick it!". Pleased me, as the lyrics are unashamedly nostalgic and centre directly on a few experiences Charlie and I shared as youths. Staying up all night, high as kites, wandering the streets of Glasgow, with our pupils dilating, not quite sure we were still on this planet. Juvenile delinquents? Yes! But we were innocent and it was fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. Nobody knows where the record industry is headed, but year on year we want to keep adding only great new songs to our set. I will say that again "only great songs." Hopefully you find that "Broken Glass Park" fits the bill!" - Jim 18th June 2011

The lyrics have never been published: a transcription follows At summertime we go down to Broken Glass Park, We'd sit on down until light fades through to dark, Do you remember me? Everytime we go down to Broken Glass Park, We'd sit on down 'til day turned into dark, Do you remember me? It was the last day of the last great century. We were so young in my memory. And Broken Glass Park, Head for the sun. Stay out all night, 'Til morning had come. Tune in to ourselves, Get lost here for days. Turned in to time, Still frozen in space. In Broken Glass Park, Let's head for the sun, Stayed out all night, 'Til morning had come. Tune in to ourselves, Get lost here for days, Frozen in time. But I'm still hooked - do you remember me? Everytime we go down to Broken Glass Park. We'd sit on down until light turned to dark. Do you remember me? It was the last day of the last great century. We were so young in my memory. And Broken Glass Park, Head for the sun. Stay out all night, 'Til morning had come. Tune in to ourselves, Get lost here for days. Turned in to time, Still frozen in space. In Broken Glass Park, Let's head for the sun, Stayed out all night, 'Til morning had come. Tune in to ourselves, Get lost here for days, Frozen in time. May those moments rest in here with me. And it will always be. One day longer the sense gets stronger, And I know it will be, this is our destiny. And Broken Glass Park, Head for the sun. Stay out all night, 'Til morning had come. Tune in to ourselves, Get lost here for days. Turned in to time, Still frozen in space. In Broken Glass Park, Let's head for the sun, Stayed out all night, 'Til morning had come. Tune in to ourselves, Get lost here for days, Frozen in time. We had FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN. We had FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN. We had FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN. FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN!

Live Version (16th June 2011) (6:30) Recorded: Hampton Court Palace Festival, London, UK Mixed By Concert Online
Live Version (25th June 2011) (6:13) Recorded: Cannock Chase Forest, Near Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK Mixed By Concert Online
Live Version (16th July 2011) (6:04) Recorded: City Rocks, Inverness, UK Mixed By Concert Online