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 me
The blood on the trax and must be mine
The fool on the hill and I feel fine
Don't look back cos you know what you might see

Look into the wall of my mind's eye
I think I know, but I don't know why
The questions are the answers you might need
Coming in a mess going out in style
I ain't good-looking but I'm someone's child
No-one can give me the air that's mine to breathe

I met my maker
I made him cry
And on my shoulder he asked me why
His people won't fly through the storm
I said "Listen up man, they don't even know you're born"

All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?
All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?
All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?
Yeah, yeah

I don't really care for what you believe
So open up your fist or you won't receive
The thoughts and the words of every man you'll need
Get up off the floor and believe in life
No-one's ever gonna ever ask you twice
Get on the bus and bring it on home to me



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    Song Meaning:Thanks to lennon-mccartney and kingink for helping me understand this song.
    Yes, I think this is a song about changing musical style and influence and the fact that chords (and even tempo) are just the same as those of Wonderwall is not a case, it's INTENTIONAL and PROGRAMMATIC. See the trick? Same chords, different song: one is kind of a romantic ballad, the other rocks. And why? Because back then Oasis had a quarrel with McCartney who didn't tolerate the fact that Oasis and Beatles were compared.
    So this song is just like saying: you know what? You may have been famous and "fab" back then, but now it's our turn, there are milions of kids out there who don't even freaking know that Beatles ever existed, but they know us, they love us and sing our songs! So all my people are right here, right now, while yours are back then. Your story is over. Get along with this fact!
    And of course it's over reaction: Beatles are still a very known and worshipped band (though it's true that they're not so "fab" any more) and Oasis didn't changed that much after this song.
    But you know Gallagher bros: they tend to be quite bully-like, so "if you piss my territory, I'll devastate yours" and stuff like that...
    Great song, even for the meaning....
    Flag JohnSteedMrsPeelon April 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i fink it has some sort of relevance to social status quite powerful statement makin you proud to be working class
    Flag olliescroton July 20, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Like the majority of Oasis songs, this one doesn't seem to have any specific meaning behind it.
    But...
    "Coming in a mess, going out in style" has to be one of my favorite lines ever!
    Flag LifeInTechnicoloron June 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about Noel & Liam's dad.
    And what they went through with him in thier childhood.

    Eventhough Noel stated he'd never right a song bout his childhood it just fits too well no to be.
    "I met my maker and i made him cry, and on my shoulder he asked me why"
    Its like his dad is apoligising for what happened etc.

    Does anyone agree?
    Flag MooneyGloryon May 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:TMV4ever is a straight genius
    Flag Craigaman11on April 07, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I sometimes do the middle finger bit when I feel a little naughty!

    (TAG TO OTHER MESSAGE)
    Flag Oasis1995on March 31, 2009   Link
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    My Opinion:One of the BEST classical songs I know!

    marks out of 10: 9.5/10

    MEGA!

    DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S BAD COMMENTS, SO F*@^K OFF, I LOVE DRIVING AT 180MPH DOWN THE MOTORWAY WITH THE WINDOWS DOWN SINGING AS LOUD AS I CAN, GIVING PASSERS BY (Sometimes) THE MIDDLE FINGER!
    Flag Oasis1995on March 31, 2009   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:I always took this song to be a psychedelic anthem. It's about being in the here and now and seeing how great the world is. It's seeing that you have everything you need, and life isn't about answers, but rather about the questions that give you meaning.

    Not sure if anyone here has had a truly transcendental experience on psychedelics, but I've always called the place your mind takes you to the here and now, a place that exists outside of time. It seems like he is reaching out to other people in that mind state with this song. SOmetimes for me, going to the here and now can be a scary and overwhelming experience. You see the connections between everything and the universe ceases to be made up of separate objects, but rather becomes one living entity. You are just as much a part of it as anything else, therefore you are in a sense part of God.

    I take this song to be being reborn through psychedelic use.

    "Look into the wall of my mind's eye
    I think I know, but I don't know why
    The questions are the answers you might need"
    -This is easy for me to relate to. When you transcend, you see that there are no answers, only questions. It all makes sense, but you can't exactly explain why, or carry it with you after you come down.

    "Coming in a mess going out in style
    I ain't good-looking but I'm someone's child
    No-one can give me the air that's mine to breathe"
    -Taking the drug because life is a mess and you need to sort out your head. Realizing that you are perfect to someone, then taking that realization further and realizing your life is your own. The only person who can take from you what you need is yourself.

    "I met my maker
    I made him cry
    And on my shoulder he asked me why
    His people won't fly through the storm
    I said 'Listen up man, they don't even know you're born'"
    -Getting in touch with your inner connection to God. I take this as an extension to the last verse about the air he breathes. He starts to see the world as perfect, but thoughts of all the imperfections in life makes the perfection (God) inside himself sad. Why do people have to behave the way they do? Why do they put such emphasis on things that aren't important? We have the air we need to breathe, we have food, we have a home (earth). It makes God cry that humanity should suffer, but he justifies that suffering saying that some people don't know what he means. A lot of people are waiting for the second coming of God to save us from life here, but we don't realize God has come, and God is existance. If we realized our true potential, and our connections to the universe we would be limitless, and we could easily fly through the storm. I'm probably reading way too much into this verse and not expressing my meaning here clear enough, but I hope some of you get the point.

    "I don't really care for what you believe
    So open up your fist or you won't receive
    The thoughts and the words of every man you'll need"
    -If you fight to make people believe what you do, you are closing your mind to the things you need. This life is about sharing experience and ideas. When we die, we will all go back to one. Think for a second what it would mean to be God, to be the ONE. If you are alone for ETERNITY (no beginning or end ever... EVER), what can you do? You separate yourself into unique subjective perspectives. It is like being a schitzophrenic. God is just imagination come to life to entertain a timeless being. When you realize this, then the thoughts of other people and your own thoughts are coming from the same source. If you close your mind and don't listen to your fellow man, you are ignoring things that may be important in enriching your life.

    "Get up off the floor and believe in life"
    -The biggest danger of psychedelics is that some people start to believe that life is fake after taking them, but this song in general is about coming through that realization. If you take the viewpoint that everything is fake, then for everything to be fake, for those experiencing a fake reality it has to be real. If nothing is real, then to define non-reality everything in non-reality must be real because everything you do has some sort of consequence or reaction. You can say, "Well none of this really matters cause we're just going to die." Yeah, true, but then what fun is your time here if your just waiting for it to end? Stop moping around and believe in your experience! Make it the best fucking experience it can be!

    I think I've said enough, but this song is a powerful song about living in the moment and realizing that everything is in its right place.
    Flag TMV4everon December 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I saw this at finsbury and my god it was fecking awesome! I agree about it's telling lennon no one knows who he is!

    I personally like to think of it in a defferent way! but what a great song!
    Flag badajozon October 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i like the idea of the bridge bit being about lennon.
    top job.
    Flag cooky9000on August 22, 2008   Link

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