Some Might Say Lyrics
"Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell"
Those lyrics mean so much to me. I can remember singing this in the car with my mum on the first few days of secondary school a long, long time ago.
Noel&Liam say...Some Might Say- "It was the first song I ever wrote when I moved to London and it was inspired by listening to The Faces. Alan McGee wanted the A-side to be Acquiesce because he didn´t think Some Might Say sounded like a number one. He´s a great man but his one fault is that he has absolutely no idea how to pick singles. As soon as I´d written Some Might Say I was absolutely certain it would be a number one and I was right. I never had even the slightest doubt. That was the gin n´ tonic getting the better of me. I met a guy in Swiss Cottage who came up to me when the single was Number One. He said,
That song really meant a lot to me.´, because he´s a Christian. And I asked if he´d heard the group at all and he hadn´t. So I told him we had this song called Cigarettes and Alcohol and being a Christian he wouldn´t really dig that. He seemed like a really down-to-earth bloke. And he´s telling me a song means a lot to him as a Christian and I´m having a conversation with him when I´m drugged up to the eyeballs. It´s a laugh, man."
i'd say it's a song against complacency, stopping the struggle, sitting there and taking it. the song is full of images of the disenfranchised:
'Cause I've been standing at the station In need of education in the rain You made no preparation for my reputation once again & Some might say you get what you've been given
but you can't say that if you're genuinely in the gutter. the gallaghers are old labour stalwarts, and the song seems to me to be making the point that all this bullshit people spew about society being alright really is just that - bullshit.
noel said, when he was on friday night with jonathan ross that he had no idea what this song is about, and to be honest, neither do i
@sgtpotter Yeah that sounds about right. It's not the first time I heard that Noel didn't really even know what he was writing about.
@sgtpotter Yeah that sounds about right. It's not the first time I heard that Noel didn't really even know what he was writing about.
That's kind of the genius of him, though. He could write something epic that stirred emotion in you without even really knowing why. Just the words he chose, coupled with the music... it's poetry, man. Rock and roll poetry.
That's kind of the genius of him, though. He could write something epic that stirred emotion in you without even really knowing why. Just the words he chose, coupled with the music... it's poetry, man. Rock and roll poetry.
A lesser writer would do the same thing and it'd be nonsense. But not Noel.
A lesser writer would do the same thing and it'd be nonsense. But not Noel.
It's also cool because it kind of leaves things open to interpretation. I take the song as meaning, people talk, people...
It's also cool because it kind of leaves things open to interpretation. I take the song as meaning, people talk, people are opinionated, people are always gonna butt into your life and tell you how you should think, act, etc. And the whole song is basically like, a reminder and a fuck you to those people. "Well, you know what some might say".... "and it don't fucking matter, mate".
does it seriously say fishes?
not issues..?
This song has two massive statements about life that really appeal to me.
"Some might say that sunshine follows thunder Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine"
- you can comfort someone by telling them Good things happen after bad things but what about the man who never has good things happen to him?
secondly.
"Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell"
- If we dont belive in heaven does this mean we only belive in hell and is that where were going. Tell that to the man who lives in hell.
dude... its "gets"... the song gets better.....
This song's really good, for some reason it reminds me of the end of 'The DaVinci Code'.....
a kid whos bunking school standing at a train station so hes in need of education. Then he mocks his Mother, as fishes are slippery, meaning dishes stressed out as its overflowing, but in true cocky kid style..'its all elementary' ;) Its for rebellious youths like they were i think.
ok heres one, in need of education in the rain! the traditional meaning of rain in the unconscious mind and dreams is crying/tears therefor emotional pain. the fact that crying is itself a healing thing to do, could suggest that the singer is in need of some sort of emotional healing for past pain in childhood ect. the fact that it is at the station conjures up an image of a train, and therefor a 'traiin of thought'.