Liam Payne & Songwriting: A Well of Comfort & Resonance
Liam Payne is revved and ready to spread that Christmas cheer, nevermind if we’re still two months away from the festive season! The former One Direction star just dropped a fresh new track, ‘Naughty List,’ featuring Dixie D’Amelio. Sprinkled with sleigh bells and a funky set of beats, it’s worth saving a warm spot for this one on your Christmas playlists.
The lyrics to this tune are sweet, cheeky and charming – much like a lot of Payne’s previous work. And so, to celebrate his fresh release, we’ve decided to pick out some of his greatest bits of songwriting. Proving to be both realistic and simple, the star’s lyrics also hold a strange charm – one that’s hard to pinpoint but blooms when words are strung together with melodies. Anyway, enough chit chat, you’ll see what we mean very soon.
Photo Credits: Liam Payne Official Instagram
1. ‘I still can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel
Just see those hometown lights we were both playing under
Wish I could press reset, but it’s not that easy’
– “Remember”
2. ‘Heart meet break, lips meet drink
Rock meet bottom, to the bottom I sink
How come love always ends?
Over and over again’
– “Heart Meet Break”
3. ‘I come alive on the weekend
I might die on the weekend (Might die, might die, might die)
Another line for my demons
I might die on the weekend’
– “Weekend”
4. ‘If we can make it through December
Maybe we’ll make it through forever
‘Cause all I want for Christmas
Is you and me to fix this’
– “All I Want”
5. ‘Baby, we should say it all, say it all
There’s beauty in these broken walls, broken walls’
– “Say It All”
6. ‘Jaded, faded, self-medicated
I didn’t know I was waiting for you, yeah, yeah
Broken, smoking, ’til you came into focus
Sobered me up off of one hit of you’
– “Live Forever”
7. ‘I’m free as a bird
When I’m flying in your cage
I’m diving in deep
And I’m riding with no brakes
And I’m bleeding in love
You’re swimming in my veins’
– “For You”
8. ‘But I heard it all before
No stress ’cause my eyes are dialled in
My ears are all yours, I’m listening
Sounds like that you are still feeling it’
– “Home With You”
9. ‘Though this is done, I will turn a blind eye
Don’t tell me goodnight, ’cause it means goodbye
Know that we’ve broken
Know this was over months ago, months ago’
– “Slow”
10. ‘Now I just wanna stay here and fall into midnight
Want nobody else now, only you feel right
Time enjoyed wasted’s not wasted time
So stay ’til the morning, stay for a while’
– “Midnight”
By: Nina Karun
