It’s just a word that fit, y’know, might as well throw a girl’s name in there.” Gallagher has said of the song, “It reminds me of a cross between ‘All the Young Dudes’ and something the Beatles might have done.” Of the famous ‘Sally’ mentioned in the song’s chorus, he added: “I don’t actually know anybody called Sally. But are you telling me, when you’ve got 60,000 people singing it, they don’t know what it means? It means something different to every one of them’.” And I went, ‘What do you mean by that?’ And he said, ‘Well, Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball - what’s that mean?’ And I went, ‘I don’t know. In 2009, Gallagher further explained, the tangible yet opaque meaning of the song’s lyrics: “This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to ‘Champagne Supernova’, and he actually said to me, ‘You know, the one thing that’s stopping it being a classic is the ridiculous lyrics’. The Manchester thing was going to be the greatest movement on earth but it was fuck all.” Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it do? Fuck all. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. It’s about when you’re young and you see people in groups and you think about what they did for you and they did nothing. “When I’m in a bad mood, being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated. In 2005, Gallagher shed light on the ever-changing meaning of the song’s lyrics: “It means different things when I’m in different moods,” he said. Ultimately, Gallagher’s impactful lyric deals with being caught up in the past to the detriment of your present self. Given the melancholy laden music, it comes as no surprise that the lyrics are inspired by returning to the place where you grew up, and reminiscing about childhood haunts. Yeah, I’ll definitely make another (album), that’s for sure.” When he came to record the album, he had 60 tracks that friend and Oasis producer Mark Coyle said needed “whittling down into an album”. In 2013, Gallagher told Talksport: “I’ve got tons of songs leftover from the last one. Speaking during the album’s announcement in October 2014, Gallagher said of the title that he “literally came up with it (a week earlier)”, adding that “if (he) could change it (he) would change it”. “It’s a shame how a memory fades to grey, we let love get lost in anger chasing yesterday.”Īllegedly, this mature and retrospective lyric gave Gallagher’s second album, Chasing Yesterday, its title. ![]() Noel Gallagher’s ten best lyrics: ‘While The Song Remains The Same’ – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (2015) So join us as we list Noel Gallagher’s ten best lyrics. He is classed as a great songwriter and somewhat of a guitar hero (opinions aside), but little discussion is ever given of his lyrics. He has blessed us with countless songs that have soundtracked our lives. ![]() As today (29th May), is his 54th birthday, it made us think about all things Noel Gallagher.
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