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Feel
Robbie Williams
The album Escapology marked the end of the Chambers and Williams partnership. Robbie wanted Guy to work only with him but Guy refused and thus came to an end one of the most commercially successful songwriting partnerships in the last decade. The lyrics for Feel certainly came from ideas from Robbie and reflect the depressed period the star was |  Song facts | | Composer | Guy Chambers, Robbie Williams | | | Genre | Pop | | | Album | Escapology | | | Released | 2002 |
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living in at the time, but it was Chambers who helped shape those ideas into the song. “Most of the time, I actually sit down with the people I’m working with and we work on the lyrics together,” he explains. “With Robbie it was line by line, even though the songs are about him. Most of the lines are actually his lines, but he would come up with so many ideas that somebody had to write them down. I’m good at that, and he’s not."
"Feel" is carried by it's emotional intensity, something he wanted to create. “The best songs, I think, are the ones that are the most emotional,” Chambers suggests. “Angels is very raw, and with Feel, Robbie was at his absolute lowest point. He didn’t want to write that lyric, but he wrote it because he had to. That’s the sort of lyric that I’m interested in, not just words that rhyme nicely."
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