 Genius Meanings
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Oasis – Gas Panic!
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Around the year 2000, Noel Gallagher began to suffer from panic attacks due to his drug addiction. He used the depression and paranoia that followed as inspiration for this song.
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Oasis – Gas Panic! (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / What tongueless ghost of sin crept through my curtains? / Sailing on a sea of sweat on a stormy night / I think he don't got a name but I can't be certain / And in me
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Oasis – Gas Panic! [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / What tongueless ghost of sin crept through my curtains? / Sailing on a sea of sweat on a stormy night / I think he don't got a name but I can't be certain / And in me
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Oasis – Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) [Familiar to Millions]
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Oasis did a cover of Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” in 2000. It was included on the live album Familiar to Millions.
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Oasis – Wonderwall [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you / By now, you should have somehow realised what you gotta do / I don't believe that anybody feels the
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Oasis – Who Feels Love? [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / Found what I've lost inside / My spirit has been purified / Take a thorn from my pride / And hand in hand we'll take a walk outside / [Chorus] / Thank you for the sun
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Oasis – Roll It Over
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[Verse 1] / I can give a hundred million reasons / To build a barricade / I blame it on the changing of the seasons / The thoughts that I've conveyed / [Pre-Chorus] / Does it make
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Oasis – Live Forever [Familiar to Millions]
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[Intro] / Oh yeah / [Verse 1] / Maybe I don't really wanna know / How your garden grows / 'Cause I just wanna fly / Lately, did you ever feel the pain / In the morning rain / As it
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Oasis – Cigarettes & Alcohol [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / Is it my imagination / Or have I finally found something worth living for? / I was looking for some action / But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol / [Chorus] / You
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Oasis – Acquiesce [Familiar to Millions]
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[Intro] / [Verse 1: Liam Gallagher] / I don't know what it is that makes me feel alive / I don't know how to wake the things that sleep inside / I only wanna see the light that
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Oasis – Little James
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The first track that Liam Gallagher penned, which became an official Oasis song. The song was written to Liam’s (then) girlfriend Patsy Kensit and her son James Kerr (who is the
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Oasis – Supersonic [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / I need to be myself / I can't be no-one else / I'm feeling supersonic, give me gin and tonic / You can have it all, but how much do you want it? / You make me laugh
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Oasis – Go Let It Out
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“Go Let It Out” was the lead single from Oasis' fourth album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, released in early February 2000. In 2006, it was included in the “Best Of”-
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Oasis – Shakermaker [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / I'd like to be somebody else / And not know where I've been / I'd like to build myself / A house out of plasticine / [Chorus 1] / Ahh, shake along with me / Ahh, shake
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Oasis – Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is
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A dirty rockin' song with an almost biblical choir section, “Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is” is about putting actions behind your words. Sung in fluent Mancunian.
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Oasis – Where Did It All Go Wrong?
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“Where Did It All Go Wrong?” was released as a promotional single in the US after lead single “Go Let It Out” had been released.
The song title is based on a very famous story
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Oasis – Who Feels Love?
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“Who Feels Love?” was released as the second single off of Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. In 2010 it was included in the singles collection Time Flies… 1994-2009.
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Oasis – I Can See A Liar
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Ended up on the album, because it was one of Liam Gallagher’s favorites.
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Oasis – Sunday Morning Call
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“Sunday Morning Call” was released as the third single off Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. In 2010 it was included in the singles collection Time Flies… 1994-2009 as a hidden
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Oasis – Stand by Me [Familiar to Millions]
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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'll be leaving one day / Before my heart starts to burn / [Bridge] / So
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Oasis – Fuckin' in the Bushes
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“Fuckin' in the Bushes” opens Standing on the Shoulder of Giants by loudly kicking in the door with a fast paced dirty punk rock tune. It features no singing, but verses and
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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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Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / Slip inside the eye of your mind / Don't you know you might find / A better place to play? / You said that you'd never been / But all the things that you've seen
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Oasis – Champagne Supernova [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / How many special people change? / How many lives are living strange? / Where were you while we were getting high? / Slowly walking down the hall / Faster than a
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Genius Lists – Songs That Reference Drugs
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This is a reference page for songs that heavily reference drugs. (Not a little but a lot.)
A recent study of Genius.com user demographics suggested the need for this reference
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Oasis – Roll With It [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / You gotta roll with it / You gotta take your time / You gotta say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way / 'Cause it's all too much for me to take / Don't
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Oasis – Rock 'n' Roll Star [Familiar to Millions]
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[Verse 1] / I live my life in the city / And there's no easy way out / The day's moving just too fast for me / I need some time in the sunshine / I've gotta slow it right down
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Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
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“Fluorescent Adolescent” is a track about getting older and finding out that life isn’t as fun as it used to be. It describes a woman who dreams of her youth while her current life
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Meat Loaf (Ft. Ellen Foley) – Paradise by the Dashboard Light
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In this epic 8.5 minute-Meat Loaf song (written by Jim Steinman, as so many of his songs are), Meat Loaf plays the character of a 17-year-old boy in a parked car with a 17-year-old
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John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – Summer Nights
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“Summer Nights” was featured in the musical Grease and was written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The song reached No.5 on the Billboard Top 100. In the UK, the song spent seven
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Orson Welles – The War of the Worlds
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ANNOUNCER: The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. / (MUSIC
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Marcel Proust – Names of People (Chapter 1)
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CHAPTER ONE / NAMES OF PEOPLE: THE DUCHESSE DE GUERMANTES — SAINT-LOUP AT DONCIÈRES — MME. DE VILLEPARISIS AT HOME — MY GRANDMOTHER’S
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Sony Pictures (Ft. Marvel Studios) – Spider-Man: No Way Home
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OVER SONY LOGO: / NY1 REPORTER (V.O.) / We come to you now with revelations about last week’s attack in London. An anonymous source provided this video. It shows Quentin Beck, aka
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax
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“Relax” is the debut single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the United Kingdom in 1983. It was written in 1982 after frontman Holly Johnson came up with the basic idea
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