Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Further to last nights lovely ode to Swindon life based on Champagne Supernova, today I decided to have a look at the real thing. How many special people change? How many lives are living strange? Where were you while we...
Further to last nights lovely ode to Swindon life based on Champagne Supernova, today I decided to have a look at the real thing.
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
What’s this, the Spanish Inquisition? It appears that the Gallagher brothers have a significant amount of questions which are totally unrelated to one another. Each question has to be considered and has a wide array of potential answers with varying consequences.
- How Many Special People Change?
- Well this is a massive question in itself. It appears that Oasis are bemused by the fact that lots of “Special People” (which may infer to people that they love and hold in high regard, people of high political and cultural importance such as Nelson Mandela, Morgan Freeman and The Pope, or it may refer to people who are mentally handicapped and are considered on some parts of society as being “Special” due to these unique features) seem to be changing.
- There is little reference as to what they are changing into, although this could I suppose mean that they have experienced a personality change which has made them a bit less cool (ala “what happened? You used to be cool dude”, a phrase you can be certain the Gallaghers are massive fans of).
- It could also simply mean that these special people change these clothes, and Oasis are wondering how often these special people choose to vary their attire.
- How many lives are living strange?
- Well this question obviously wonders how many “weird” people out there, because Liam and Noel Gallagher quite obviously represent the epitome of normality and want to know how many weirdos there are out there.
- Or does it? Perhaps Liam and Noel wish to know this because they feel as if they are different from everyone else and as such wish to know who else is different from the normal stereotype set by people. What this is is unclear but hey; when someone calls someone else weird, they’re just highlighting that they are different despite the fact that everyone has differences. Dangerously philosophical, but hey.
- Where were you while we were getting high?
- Liam and Noel wish to know where the subject was when they were enjoying illegal substances; presumably because they don’t want any witnesses to their somewhat naughty activity.
- Or perhaps Liam and Noel wish the subject had been there by their side when they were getting high. Confusing.
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Liam and Noel clearly are not great students of physics; no-one would say that a cannonball is by anyone’s definition slow (unless it is being rolled along the ground at a slow pace, but due to the lack of a cannon in that case and the lack of any elaboration one assumes that this is a ball that has been fired from a cannon) and yet they are walking down the hall, apparently slowly yet somehow quicker than a cannonball. Which must mean that they are just exceptionally quick and find this meager pace of, oh, 200 mph (I have no idea how quick the average cannonball is, although I suppose it would depend on a number of variances – such as cannon and ball, I guess) to be somewhat slow. They could pick it up, but being Oasis – they only go to the beat of their own drum. Oh, how rebellious.
Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova in the sky
It appears that one day we will find the Gallaghers caught underneath a presumably terrible (and potentially fatal) landslide in a (and I quote) “Champagne Supernova in the sky”. Apparently a Champagne Supernova is now known as “an aberrant type Ia supernova discovered in 2003 and described in the journal Nature on September 21 of 2006.” It is also apparently named after the song, so it appears that Noel Gallagher has written himself an astronomical phenomenon, or perhaps even came up with the idea that this particular supernova was indeed champagne. Either way, this is gas based, and as such a physical landslide would be impossible. It is clear that Noel Gallagher needs to brush up on his physics.
Wake up the dawn and ask her why A dreamer dreams, she never dies Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Liam is asking that the subject wakes up a lady called Dawn, who is apparently a bit of a dreamer – which implies that she is a bit of a deep sleeper and as such will need some significant effort to be woken up; something along the lines of a poke perhaps, or some loud music blaring into Dawn’s ear (perhaps Metallica, or Guns N’ Roses – two fine acts when it comes to waking a perennial sleeper up). He wishes to awaken Dawn not for her to start the day or perhaps prepare the packed lunch for the kids or whatever, but he wishes to awake her to ask her a simple yet inordinately complex question; “Why?”
This why could be about the very existence of life and why we’re here, whether we are all part of a greater scheme or all products of a beautiful scientific accident billions of years ago. Yet the question could be simply something along the lines of “why are you crying dear?” (implied by the last line of this verse involving tears), or perhaps “why did you buy this Shampoo? You know I’m Greasy Roots, not Dry!” Either way, it’s a bit selfish just to wake her up in order to ask her about something as inane as Shampoo and inept hair product selection.
'Cuz 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
It is apparent that Liam and Noel don’t believe that “they” (but who on earth are they? They could mean any abstract group of more than two people wherever and whatever they do, so to provide no further details is tantamount to an incredible criminality with regard to details) are going to get away from the summer months – and quite who would want to get away from the summer is beyond me (unless they’re freaks/vampires who are afraid of the sun and seek solitude and harmony in the winter months), whilst Liam and Noel believe that they and the subject are somehow immortal and that they shall never die; once again, it appears that Noel in particular is highly misinformed when it comes to his Sciences, and he could most certainly do with some re-educating in this core area of the curriculum. This is highlighted by the fact they have no idea about how the world spins around on its axis, and this causes much confusion amongst the lads of Oasis.
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