Oh yeah
Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I just wanna fly
Wanna live, I don't wanna die
Maybe I just wanna breathe
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
I said maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
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
Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I just wanna fly
Wanna live, I don't wanna die
Maybe I just wanna breathe
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
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I just wanna fly
Wanna live, I don't wanna die
Maybe I just wanna breathe
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
I said maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
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
Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I just wanna fly
Wanna live, I don't wanna die
Maybe I just wanna breathe
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
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Lyrics submitted by deathchurch
Live Forever Lyrics as written by Noel Gallagher
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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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.
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
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.
'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.