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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 cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams, she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cause we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
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 cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cause we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
We were getting high <-- 9 times, background "Oooh-oooh"
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams, she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cause we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
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 cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova
'Cause we don't believe
That they're gonna get away from the summer
But you and I will never die
The world's still spinning around we don't know why
Why-why-why-why-i-i
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
We were getting high <-- 9 times, background "Oooh-oooh"
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How many special people change
( our friends are being more mature now
that they having their life like having a job , having a family being committed to something )
How many lives are living strange
( we're seeing people living a life they
never wanted in the first place and ended up regretting the path they chose )
Where were you while we were getting high
( Where are you when i'm down and i need you .. Good times with our friends will not be the same like we always do.. they have their own lives now we're not
kids anymore
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than the Cannonball
( you feel the world is getting worse on you like some of your friends having a better life and things didn't go your way )
Someday you will find me Caught beneath the Landslide
In a Champagne Supernova in the Sky
( Someday they will see that you can be in the top of the world it was like when you feel down and when you get motivated you want to show em' something. something you can feel your proud of. they will see that you can do something and that one day your dreams can come true
"That´s probably as psychedelic as I´ll ever get. It means different things when I´m in different moods. When I´m in a bad mood being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated. The song is a bit of an epic. 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. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. Bands like The Clash just petered out. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it do? When we started we decided we weren´t going to do anything for anybody, we just thought we´d leave a bunch of great songs. But some of the words are about nothing. One is about Bracket The Butler who used to be on Camberwick Green, or Chipley or Trumpton or something. He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. And then I couldn´t think of anything that rhymed with hall apart from cannonball, so I wrote, `Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball' and people were like, Wow, fuck man.' There´s also the line, `Where were you while we were getting high?´ because that´s what we always say to each other. But the number of people who´ve started clubs called Champagne Supernova is fuckin´ unbelievable." ~ Noel Gallagher
He is a drug addict pondering Suicide, and tells his former girlfriend not to cry, their relationship will never die. Champagne Supernova is about getting high on coke, ecstasy and heroin (old term is a jeffrey) and overdosing.
How many special people change
(all the people in your life that have changed that use to be significant but not anymore)
How many lives are living strange
(you really don't know what people are going through)
Where were you when we were getting high?
(where were you when I needed you and/or all the fun times)
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
(I think of this as on of those segments you see on TV; someone is walking somewhere, for example, down a hall, in slow motion, but the people around them are walking fast around them. life's fast but then again slow at the same time.)
Where were you while we were getting high?
(I needed you, for the good and the bad times)
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
(you'll discover one day I'm living a rough live...)
In a champagne supernova in the sky
(in a beautiful place)
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova in the sky
( life is great, and even though it's rough sometimes, overall it's beautiful, with or without you.)
I think the someday you will find me caught beneath a landslide of a champagne supernova in the sky means that when the friend reconnects, he's going to find him on a downward spiral of alcohol and drugs.
"where were you while we were getting high" shows the person is asking their friend why they wern't around for all the good times and that they have missed a lot.
"how many special people change" is like he is thinking how he no longer knows or understands his friend as he doesn't see him and he is upset.
"someday you will find me, caught beneath a land slide" could mean it is too late for his friend to come back because he will already be 'crushed' from the pain of losing him, so if he returns he will be a broken man.
"but you and I will never die" gives hope that they could still be friends as there will always be something special between them.
AMAZING song. AMAZING band!