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THE bitter feud between The Spice Girls and Geri Halliwell could soon be over.
The group have written a special song dedicated to Geri on their latest album.
And Mel B, Emma, Victoria and Mel C have wished their old pal luck in her solo career, saying: "You are strong... don't give up girl."
The amazing track, which is called Let Love Lead The Way, is one cut of a double A-side single released next month.
It was written by The Spice Girls after they watched Geri's revealing fly-on-the-wall TV documentary in 1999.
In the warts-and-all programme, the artist formerly known as Ginger Spice showed her vulnerable side and seemed lost after splitting from the group.
Now the single Let Love Lead The Way - which features another new song, Holler, on the flip side - will hit record shops on October 23.
Both are tracks from the long-awaited new Spice Girls' album Forever, which is their first studio release for three years.
The astonishing lyrics for Let Love Lead The Way reveal the group want to finally bury the hatchet with Geri.
Mel B, Emma, Victoria and Mel C sing: "Part of me laughs, part of me cries/Part of me wants to question why/Where is there joy, why is there fear/Although you're here/But you are gone/No matter we must go on."
Geri quit the group two years ago and cut off all contact with her former mates. When she released her first solo album, Schizophonic, The Spice Girls and other musical colleagues were scathing about her talent.
Mel C and Mel B - who were thought to be Geri's main adversaries - knocked her, saying the record was poor.
But it appears that the rift has now been healed.
In another verse, the lyrics seem to offer Geri words of encouragement for the future.
The song goes on: "Getting there all alone/In the window of her room/Watching the world go by/Brings tears to her eyes.
"All she sees is hurt and pain/She wants to break the chains/ She'll keep working every day. And she'll find her own sweet way.
"You may be weak but you are strong/Don't give up girl."
The song is a poignant turn-around from the events of 1998.
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