Write Away Magazine Dec 2019

Simon Wright
or You
collaborate through a post on a Facebook group
called ‘Songwriting and Music Production’.
His invitation was answered by an enthusiastic and
talented bunch of musicians and songwriters. It’s a
really global effort, with contributions drawn from
Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Finland, England,
South Africa, United States, Scotland, Italy, and
Bangladesh!
The album features fresh interpretations of
well-known Christmas favourites, plus original new
material. The music is sumptuous and will make your
foot tap, your heart smile, and hopefully also make
you think about what Christmas means to you and
its true spirit.
Stand for you lyric
My contribution to the album was to create an
original lyric, called ‘Stand for you’. Riley, the veteran
referenced within the song, is a fictitious
character, but he represents the plight that many
veterans sadly end up facing. He has had to sell the
medals he earned, and has gone (in society’s eyes)
from being a homecoming hero to just another
homeless person sat on a street corner.
I wanted to juxtaposition Riley’s plight with the
joyous anticipation that kids have on Christmas Eve
– being tucked up in a warm bed waiting excitedly
for Santa and his reindeer to arrive. And then to have
the chorus be an uplifting tale of how others will
support Riley in his hour of need, just as he stood for
us when serving his country.I originally thought the
lyric could maybe be converted into a Bruce
Springsteen-type song, but when Seth Koos started
working on it he had the great idea to move it into
more of a hard rock territory. And we were very
lucky to enlist Bob Campbell to provide the vocal
oomph that the song needed. I’m very proud of the
end result and that a lyric I wrote is helping a great
cause.
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