(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

Track 9 on Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

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“(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach” is a thumping, drum and bass heavy, mid tempo rocker about realizing that you were better off in the place where you were coming from.

Oct. 17, 20111 viewer

(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Falling, I see you on the way down
I'll meet you on the rebound
Or somewhere in between
Calling out across the airwaves
Faces that you can't save
Are calling out for me

[Chorus 1]
And oh me, oh my!
Say so long, baby, bye-bye
Pour me one for the road
It's a long journey, baby
Where it's going to take me
Just depends on the weight of my load, oh no
Depends on the weight of my load

[Verse 2]
Sail on, I'll see you in the next one
'Cause everybody's been and gone
There's no one here but me

[Chorus 1]
And oh me, oh my!
Say so long, baby, bye-bye
Pour me one for the road
It's a long journey, baby
Where it's going to take me
Just depends on the weight of my load, oh no
Depends on the weight of my load

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[Instrumental bridge]

[Chorus 2]
And oh me, oh my!
Say so long, baby, bye-bye
Pour me one for the road
It's a long journey, baby
Where it's going to take me
Just depends on the weight of my load, oh no
Depends on the weight of my load, oh no
Depends on the weight of my load, oh no
Depends on the weight of my load

[Outro]
Dry land sinking in the quicksand
Stranded on the wrong beach
Come and rescue me

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“(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach” is a thumping, drum and bass heavy, mid tempo rocker about realizing that you were better off in the place where you were coming from.

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What did Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds say about "(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach"?

Noel Gallagher spoke to NME about how the song fit into the ongoing story on the album,

The album starts off with Everybody’s On The Run and a sense of having to leave where you are to go and find paradise, find out if the grass is greener on the other side. But you end up stranded on the wrong beach, where you end up in paradise thinking, ‘This isn’t really what I wanted. I should be where I f—ing come from. I should be where I belong.’ It’s where you’re from is where you’re at, really. Kind of saying the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Subconsciously I must’ve been thinking about all this.

Why is there brackets in the song?

Noel admitted to NME: