"I get the odd night when I'm halfway through Don't Look Back In Anger when I say to myself, 'I still don't know what these words mean!'" Gallagher is quoted by Contactmusic.com as saying.
"I'm thinking, what the ...what the... 'stand up beside the fireplace'. Why?
"And all these kids will be singing it at the top of their voices with all their arms around each other and I kind of feel like stopping and going, 'Look, can somebody help me out here? Am I missing something?'"
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds23415.html
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"And how does it feel like to let forever be"
― Jonathan Merritt, Saturday, 13 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
Either way...
― Jonathan Merritt, Saturday, 13 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
a) the phrase was chosen simply because it rhymed, orb) it was stolen from T. Rex, Beatles, Stones, Bowie, or other artist
― -vest, Saturday, 13 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)
It's OK for painters to say it. Francis Bacon made a point of saying in almost every interview that he had no idea what his pictures meant; sometimes he also insisted they had no meaning over and above their formal expression of ideas about colour, texture and surface etc.
What I like about Noel G's explication is that it's comically matter of fact and nicely delivered. He paints a funny scenario. I mean, it makes me laugh when I imagine him on stage having these thoughts. I'm sure he's quite sincere. I would really like to know why this lyric resonates with the fans of Oasis, I'd like to ask them. Maybe this is the place to do so.
― moley, Sunday, 14 August 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)
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― amon (eman), Sunday, 14 August 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)
for me, they never meant anything, it was the overall groove of the music. of course, they haven't been my favorite band for years, but around 95-97, it feels like i listened to nothing but their first three albums. as im sure noel himself would say, its just rock and roll.
i mean, if you want lyrical meaning, read whitman or keats or something you know?
― JD from CDepot, Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)
somewhere there are pictures!
― dan. (dan.), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)