 Genius Meanings
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – The Death of You and Me
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“The Death of You and Me” was released as the lead single off of Noel Gallagher’s debut solo album Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, August 21st 2011. It was the first song
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – If I Had a Gun...
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“If I Had A Gun…” was written in Lima, Peru and was originally intended to be the lead single off of the self-titled debut album. It was passed over in favour of “The Death of You
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – The Good Rebel
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“The Good Rebel” was released as a B-side to the single “The Death Of You And Me” and later included as a bonus track on the Japanese edition, US deluxe edition and limited
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Dead to the World
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[Verse 1] / I can lend you a dream / 'Til we meet again / I'm dead to the world / I don't know where I've been / [Pre-Chorus] / And if you say so / I'll bend over backwards / For
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Dead in the Water
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Noel Gallagher explores a faltering relationship and his last-ditch attempts to salvage it before a premature demise. According to Dictionary.com, the idiom describes being unable
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – The Dying of the Light
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“The Dying of the Light” was released as the fifth and last single off Chasing Yesterday. The song can be described as a slow tempo melancholic look back at times past.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – AKA... Broken Arrow
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The song is named after Neil Young’s Broken Arrow ranch in La Honda, California. Although to begin with, it was called “Fallen Angel a.k.a. Broken Arrow.”
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – AKA... What a Life!
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“AKA… What A Life!” was released as the second single off of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, September 9th 2011. The song was originally named “Ride the Tiger a.k.a. What a
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – It’s a Beautiful World
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“It’s a Beautiful World” was released as the second single off of Who Built the Moon? on November 17th 2017. The song is built around a drumbeat that would find itself at home on a
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – This Is the Place
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[Verse 1] / The further you fall the higher you fly / You keep on reaching and you don't know why / The road is long and I've been losing my way / The night is young and you've got
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – We're on Our Way Now
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[Verse 1] / Remember what might have been / Had I walked you home and said I'll see you later / You were living the dream / But when the morning come you'd gone to meet your maker
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Dream On
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“Dream On” was released as the fourth single off Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, March 12th 2012.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Flying On the Ground
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[Verse 1] / Like a lonely soul on an empty sea / Behind a setting sun, I bet you can't find me / I'm flying on the ground / Yeah, I'm upside down / 'Cause I got so high / [Verse 2
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
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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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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Stop the Clocks
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“Stop the Clocks” shares its name with a “Best-of”-compilation album by Oasis. The song is an old Oasis song that never got finished, so the compilation album is named after this
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – (I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine
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“(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine” was previously planned to be included on the Oasis albums Don’t Believe The Truth and Dig Out Your Soul.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – If I Had a Gun... (Acoustic Version)
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[Verse 1] / If I had a gun / I'd shoot a hole into the sun / And love would burn this city down for you / If I had the time / I'd stop the world and make you mine / And every day
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Blue Moon Rising
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[Verse 1] / When the night is falling / And the land is cold / And that secret you found in your pocket / Will remain untold / There's a storm out on the horizon / And it's coming
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Everybody's on the Run
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“Everybody’s On The Run” was released as the fifth and final single off Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, August 6th 2012.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – The Dying of the Light (Acoustic Version)
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[Verse 1] / I keep on running but I can't get to the mountain / Behind me lie the years that I've misspent / And I've been singing like a flower in the fountain / When all the love
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Black Star Dancing
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“Black Star Dancing” was released as the lead single of the EP by the same name on May 2nd 2019. The song sonically continues the new cosmic pop/disco territory Noel Gallagher
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – A Dream Is All I Need to Get By
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[Verse 1] / You were talking in your sleep / The secrets you were meant to keep / You should've kept them in your head / But you let them out instead / [Chorus] / Some of us need
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks
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[Verse 1] / All the people on the village green / Are gathered round their TV screens / To hear the government about to speak / For soldier boys and Jesus Freaks / They go to
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Oasis – Wonderwall
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“Wonderwall” was released as the third single off of Oasis' classic album What’s The Story? (Morning Glory). It was supposedly written for Noel Gallagher’s then-girlfriend, Meg
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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The lyrics ostensibly reflect the problems in Ian Curtis’s marriage to Deborah Curtis, as well as his general frame of mind in the time leading up to his suicide in May 1980.
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