Oasis - "Live Forever"

[liberalpragmatist]

Whatever you may think of the band as a whole, this is undeniably a great song. One of my favorite songs of the '90s - from what I understand it was a decent hit in this country around '94, but I wish it could've been bigger.

Lyrics

Maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breath
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Live forever
Forever

[LoZoccolo]

1. I was just thinking a few hours ago...

...I would have took more time to enjoy the nineties if I knew they would probably have been the best times in a long time.

[Keebs]

2. Amen to that

[Pert_UK]

3. Champagne Supernova would be my favourite...

I've seen Oasis live and they were very disappointing. I also find a lot of their music boring and uninspired, albeit far better than the majority of turd floating in the British music charts.

However, they do occasionally pull out a masterpiece, and Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall are both in that category.

Have to say that Live Forever is a bit whiney and the lyrics aren't exactly Coleridge...

Sorry.

P.

[Bhaisahab]

4. they had a reference to Cobain's suicide in the song...

... and that did it for me. how could i not like that song! i was in college that time, a 19 year old punk addicted to grunge in a country cultures away from Seattle 1990. but it was a great song. Oasis lately performed a song called "Whatever", the chorus of which goes:
"I'm free to do whatever I
Whatever I want and I'll sing the blues
If I want."

i thought that was pretty neat too.