 Genius Meanings
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Oasis – D'You Know What I Mean? (NG's 2016 Rethink)
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[Verse 1] / Step off the train all alone at dawn / Back into the home where I was born / Sun in the sky never raised an eye to me / The blood on the trax and they must be mine
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Oasis – D'You Know What I Mean?
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“D'You Know What I Mean” was released as the lead single off Be Here Now. It is a “call to arms” song that samples a drum beat from N.W.A’s “Straight Outta Compton.” At the time of
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Cults – You Know What I Mean
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[Verse 1] / I, I can't take things slowly / Come, then go away, that's what they all do / Help me 'cause I'm feeling shaky / Tell me what's wrong with my brain 'cause I seem to
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Oasis – Stand By Me (Live At Bonehead's Outtake)
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[Verse 1] / Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday / I've got a lot of things to learn / Said I would and I'd be leaving one day / Before my heart starts to burn / [Pre-Chorus] / So
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Oasis – Stay Young
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“Stay Young” was released as a B-side to “D'You Know What I Mean?”
Noel Gallagher expressed some contempt for the song. Despite that, in 1998 it was included on the B-side
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Oasis – Angel Child (Demo)
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“Angel Child” was released as a B-side to the single “D'You Know What I Mean?.”
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Oasis – Stand By Me (Mustique Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Made a meal and throw it up on Sunday / I've got a lot of things to learn / Said I would and I'll be leaving one day / Before my heart starts to burn / [Pre-Chorus
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Oasis – Setting Sun (Live Radio Broadcast)
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[Verse] / You're the devil in me, I brought in from the cold / You said your body was young but your mind was very old / You're coming on strong and I like the way / The visions we
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Oasis – Help! (Live in LA)
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[Verse 1] / When I was younger so much younger than today / I never needed anybody to help in any way / But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assured / And now I find I'
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William Maranci – Wonderwall But Liam Keeps Singing the Wrong Song
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[Verse 1: Liam Gallagher (from "D’You Know What I Mean?")] / Step off the train all alone at dawn / Back into the hole where I was born / The sun in the sky never raised an eye to
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Oasis – It’s Gettin’ Better (Man!!) [Mustique Demo]
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[Verse 1] / Say something / Shout it from the rooftops of your head / Make it sort of mean something / Make me understand or I'll forget / The people here on lifes beaches / They
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Oasis – Stay Young (Mustique Demo)
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[Verse 1] / One way out / Is all you're ever going to get from / Those who hand / Them out, don't ever let it upset you, 'cause / They'll put words / Into your mouth, they're
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Oasis – Untitled (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Only for the young is the dreams you might not have / Only for the young is the things we won’t remember / And long ago there was things in the past / And they never
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Oasis – Don't Go Away (Demo)
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[Verse] / Cold and frosty morning, not a lot to say / 'Bout the things caught in my mind / As the day was dawning, my plane it flew away / All the things caught in my mind / [Pre-
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Oasis – My Sister Lover (Mustique Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Feeling sleeping deep inside / You hide it so I never find / Today I think I'll waste your time / You never notice, you are blind / The dream I have can never be / To
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Oasis – I Hope, I Think, I Know
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[Verse 1] / They're trying hard to put me in my place / And that is why I gotta keep running / The future is mine and it's no disgrace / 'Cause in the end the past means nothing
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Oasis – Fade In-Out (Mustique Demo)
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[Intro] / Should I just go? / Yeah / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Get on the roller coaster, the fair's in town today / Ya gotta be bad enough to beat the brave / So get on
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Oasis – Heroes
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Oasis' cover-version of David Bowie’s “Heroes” was released as a B-side to the single “D'You Know What I Mean?”.
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Oasis – All Around The World (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me / To go through all the things I wanna be / I don't believe in everything I see / You know I'm blind so why d'you disagree
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Oasis – Stand By Me (Demo)
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[Verse] / Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday / I've got a lot I need to learn / Said I would and I'll be leaving one day / Before my heart starts to burn / [Pre-Chorus] / What's
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Oasis – The Fame (Mustique Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Breaks like glass but not in your hand / Shoot you down right where you stand / And it don't care for what you wear / Or which way you might sway / It calls you up but
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Oasis – Don't Go Away (Mustique Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Cold and frosty morning, there's not a lot to say / About the things caught in my mind / As the day was dawning my plane flew away / With all the things caught in my
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Oasis – (I Got) The Fever
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“(I Got) The Fever” was released as a B-side to the single “Stand By Me.”
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Oasis – My Sister Lover
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“My Sister Lover” was released as a B-side to the single “Stand by Me.”
The title may have been inspired by the female scottish band “Sister Lovers” that Oasis used to hang out
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MrFive25 – So Vibrant
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[Chorus] / Feeling so vibrant in my Stone Island / Airplane mode on to keep my phone silent / Good vibes no violence / Keep my soul stylish / A Paddy and proud, this flow's Irish
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Oasis – If We Shadows (Demo)
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“If We Shadows” is an Oasis demo from 1992 that never got an official release.
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Oasis – The Fame
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“The Fame” was released as a B-side to the single “All Around the World.”
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The Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There
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Track one, side one of Please Please Me.
Now considered a rock'n'roll standard covered by everyone from Pharrell Williams to Led Zeppelin, it was originally titled Seventeen as
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Oasis – Magic Pie
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Noel Gallagher sings this tune, which started as he misread “magpie” in a rhyming dictionary.
The jazzy bit at the end is played on a Mellotron, which was made for the The Beatles
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Oasis – Flashbax
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“Flashbax” was released as a B-side to the single “All Around The World.”
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Elton John (Ft. Lesley Duncan) – Love Song
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[Verse 1] / The words I have to say / May well be simple but they're true / Until you give your love / There's nothing more that we can do / [Chorus] / Love is the opening door
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Oasis – All Around The World
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“All Around the World” was released as the third single off Be Here Now. With a runtime of nearly 10 minutes, it is the longest single released by the band. It is embellished with
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Oasis – The Girl In The Dirty Shirt
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Noel Gallagher wrote “The Girl in the Dirty Shirt” with his (then) girlfriend Meg Mathews in mind, after he saw her iron a dirty shirt before an Oasis gig.
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Oasis – It’s Gettin’ Better (Man!!)
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“It’s Gettin' Better Man(!!)” is one of the longest (The lyric “gettin' better man” is repeated 41 times!) and most epic songs Oasis have ever released.
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