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Simon Wright

All That Matters

between myself and Freddie, darling, but I wanted to that he had added in ‘some reggae style stuff’.
create something that was about the importance of
friendship during tough times, rather than I think that change was inspired and it probably
defaulting to the notion of a romantic partner being contributed to the song being picked up by Swedish
the person providing the love and support. singer Markus Palsson. I’ve worked with Markus on
some previous songs and he has got a beautiful voice.
All That Matters lyric It was great that he was able to fit us in alongside all
the other projects that he had running. We spent
Here’s the resultant lyrics that I came up with. I went a bit of time debating what improvements (if any)
quite flowery and dramatic in my descriptions of we should make to the song, and I think the Bridge
the protagonist’s pain, so that it would set things up section in particular was a focus of some revision
nicely for the core message that their friend’s support before we were happy to send our little song out into
would help them get through it. the world!

From Lyric to Song – a collaborative effort All That Matters – our single is out now.
I’m very proud of the song we created and I hope
As I often do, having written the lyric, I posted it on that you will give it a listen and will like it too! It’s
the Kompoz website. www.Kompoz.com provides an currently available as a single and you can listen to it
online space where lyric writers and musicians can by following this link....
share talents and collaborate to create songs. I still
find it completely awesome that I can link up with About Simon Wright
musicians from all around the world and have them
bring my words to life. And the friendships that such Simon is an Irish lyric writer who lives in Scotland.
collaborations can forge also fit in nicely with the He collaborates with musicians across the world to
theme of this article! turn his lyrics into songs. Check out his website

I was lucky that a talented Estonian musician called www.LyricSlinger.co.uk
Ette picked up my lyric and decided to work it up
into a musical idea. In fact, he worked up an initial and follow @TheLyricSlinger on Twitter
idea, and then did an alternative one, commenting

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