Revealed: Liam Payne's 'love song for his ex Naomi Campbell' recorded just weeks before his death - which he died believing would be his next hit

Liam Payne wrote and recorded his final song as a tribute to his love for supermodel Naomi Campbell, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. The former One Direction star dated Ms Campbell for several months in 2019 and began composing the song ‘Closer to You’ shortly after their break-up. The lyrics talk of his yearning ‘to get closer to you’ and reveal she was the one ‘who walked away.’ Model Noami Campbell with pop singer Liam Payne at dinner in Ghana, January 2019 The former One Direction star dated Ms Campbell for several months in 2019 and began composing the song ‘Closer to You’ shortly after their break-up But Mr Payne abandoned work on the love song - which opens with a reference to smelling her perfume lingering in the air - until earlier this year when he finally recorded it He repeatedly pleads: ‘I want to love you.’ He was particularly proud of the opening line of the melody: ’Still smell your perfume in my room….’ The source said: ’Liam joked Naomi’s scent was so distinctive he could always smell it, even long after she’d left.’ The Mail on Sunday listened to a rough-cut of the three-and-a-half minute song which was recorded in Los Angeles in July. Liam traveled to Sweden in August where he recorded the final version of the song with producer and composer Rani Yacoub who penned One Direction’s biggest hit ‘What Makes You Beautiful.’ On the phone in Los Angeles also contributing to the record was Grammy-award winning Swedish record producer Max Martin who wrote ‘Baby One More Time’ for Britney Spears and ‘I Kissed A Girl’ for Katy Perry. The Mail on Sunday understands that Liam, who died in October after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina aged just 31, was extremely proud of the record Liam described her as ‘perfection in a person’ and she called him ‘a beautiful soul.’ Ms Campbell has not commented about his death but put a broken heart, dove emojis and prayer hands beneath a photograph of Liam posted by singer Nicole Scherzinger after his fatal fall.