Oasis – Live Forever

General CommentThis is probably my favourite Oasis song. I think it's about the immortality of music idols and how even if they do physically die, their presence and influence is able to be seen everywhere. That's what I got from the video clip anyway, and assumed that the brothers were (rightly) talking about themselves in this way. It's could also be about how people close to you are in your mind, immortal, and how you never want to come to saying a final goodbye to them.

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  @enola
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  That is so good.

  Flag DKVilleon January 16, 2010  

General CommentThis song is about idolizing someone, or having a dream, then realizing you may never live up to your hero or accomplish your dream, but understanding that you'll never get anywhere if you don't atleast try to.
In this song, Noel is talking to 3 people:
his Mother
his Audience
and his Hero

"Maybe I don't really wanna' know how your garden grows"
Noel Gallagher's mother had a garden that she would tend to day after day after day, and her
garden symbolizes a dead end life, working 9-5 everyday with no dreams
of going anywhere. Noel follows that up with:

"Because I just wanna fly"
Noel doesn't want to hear about his mothers garden, or live her life, because he has a dream and he wants to "fly,"
or live out his dream and do something with his life.

The next part of the song, Noel is talking to his audience, and asking them a question.

"Lately, did you ever feel the pain? In the morning rain? As it soaks you to the bone?"
Basically what he's asking is, have you ever sat down and realized what he has realized? The morning rain symbolizes depression, or coming to a stunning conclusion
that maybe your life isn't going anywhere, and letting it all soak in.

"Well maybe I just wanna' fly, I wanna' live, I don't wanna' die"
Noel says that he doesn't want to live a dead end life, he wants to fly, and live out his dream.

"Maybe I just wanna' breath, but maybe I just don't believe"
Noel wants to live that dream, but he's saying he doesn't really believe that he can do it.

This part of the song, Noel is talking to his hero (John Lennon).

"Maybe you're the same as me, and we'll see things they'll never see"
Noel is relating himself to his hero, and saying that no one will ever understand how they both feel.

"You and I are gonna' live forever"
Methaphorically speaking, the things that Noel dreams of doing, and what his hero has done, are going to live on forever.

"Maybe I will never be all the things that I'd like to be"
speaks for itself.

"But now is not the time to cry, nows the time to find out why"
Nows not the time to soak in the morning rain, and fall into a dead end life, nows the time to realize your dream

"Maybe you're the same as me, we see things they'll never see. You and I are gonna Live Forever."

When Noel wrote this song, he was construction worker, living a verry dull and unfullfilling life. He saw how his family was, and what he was becoming, and he decided
to take a chance, and write a song like his hero John Lennon did. He decided to jump off the branch as birds do when they learn how to fly, obviously it worked for him.
Live Forever is a reminder to everyone who felt like him, that you just have to realize your dream, and take a chance at it, or else you'll be tending to a garden
day after day, with nothing to live for.

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  @Wilson0692
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  Excellent interpretation my friend. It's about accepting yourself, accepting you are responsible for your own life, your own dreams and desires. Having the courage to face and act on them. No one can take that away from you.

  Flag DraconiusKon December 17, 2012  

General CommentIn the documentary Live Forever, Noel discussed that the song was about growing up in a lower class and about resisting, as debaser2002 mentioned, the 'i want to kill myself attitude'. It has a similar, although much more subtly said meaning as the Pulp's 'Common People' where these people are focussed on day to day living, and don't care 'how your garden grows'

Read this lyrics, and it is pretty evident... i think:

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

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  @pods

General Commentfor all u people out there that see oasis as betles rip offs open your eyes, oasis are the best band of the past couple of decades. of course they arn't as good as the beatles but they aren't far off and some of their songs are better than the beatles, for example; slide away, stand by me, LIVEFORVER etc.

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  @salty1690

General CommentOasis sound very different from the beatles. They've got influences like the Sex Pistols and stuff. There first two albums were as good as the Beatles first two. Inbetween In Utero and Californication they were the best band in the world. I think what he 'doesn't believe' is all the people who tell you to stay between the lines and to live the way society wants.

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  @chocolate

General CommentThis song was apparently written in five minutes flat in the v early 90's when Noel was fed up with the ' I want to kill myself ' attitude of the grunge scene at the time. It's basically just a reposte to the shoe gazing attitudes...

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  @debaser2002
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  i can relate

  Flag ymfarhion March 11, 2011  

General CommentBrilliant as this song is, the demo version's much better - it's got a really acoustic intro over the drums, then Liam's voice kicks in. Really mellow.

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  @Stylus

General CommentA horticulturist on LSD seriously considering retirement? 'maybe i dont really wanna know how your'e garden grows, cos i just wanna fly' Asong that'll stand the test of time decade after decade.

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  @GangOfSin

General CommentI came here to write about this song but Wilson0692's comment on the previous page summed up everything I wanted to say.

It's about someone who wants to live life and go after their dreams. Someone who tires to escape a mundane life. A masterpiece written by Noel.

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  @Hitman316

General CommentI remember seeing Noel interviewed on tv back when this was released. He said people were getting it wrong thinking it was a usual love song. He said it was a love song but to his mum. He then said 'that one was for you mum, we're gonna live forever!' Always stuck in my mind because then it made more sense.
'Lately, I don't really want to know, how your garden grows, cos I just wanna fly' sums up exactly how adolescent lads feel as they drift apart from their mums and want to go out having it and making the most of the world around them.
I think the sad chord change at the end is because he knows his mum isn't going to live forever. Beautiful song.

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  @TRICKY89