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Matt Goss interview
ILM: You've said the songs are almost like a personal diary of what's been going on… do you find the process of writing songs cathartic? And which songs were the most therapeutic?
Matt: Fever, I wrote in New York with a friend of mine, who wrote Smooth for Santana - we wrote Fever together and it came from deep within. Again it's quite a dark lyric, 'as I lie awake I sleep inside'. It's really about how intense a man feels when his heart's breaking. I think men hurt more than women, wheras women seem to be able to, once they've made a decision, carry on and move on. But men kind of suffer. It's probably a misconception about men. So Fever was a good song to write.
On an upside, I wrote a song called St James Park in the last four or five days, and now we're using that song to close the whole show with, because it's so good and upbeat, and about me being in St James Park and taking my girl there and feeling like I'm home again. It's such a good song, and one called I'm Coming With You, which I wrote recently and that's about basically saying to a girl, 'If you leave I'm coming with ya,'. There's some intense songs, and there's one about my sister Carolyn, and I did it on a TV show the other day and it put a lump in my throat because I've not sung it for people, so to feel the song come alive and see the audience react to it… everyone was all teary eyed, it's quite emotional.
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