stick with the original lyrics. According to a quote from NME that I found on a fan forum - https://forum.live4ever.uk.com/thread/83808/oasis-thoughts-day?page=544 - Noel had set out to write a #1 single. (Which it eventually became.) But he hesitated to release it for months - though Liam gave him an argument about that - and ended up changing the lyrics in response to what guitarist Gem Archer had said, that instrumentally it sounded like the most Oasis-sounding song ever. But the lyrics Noel had originally written didn't fit with that.
The original lyrics were: "There's no love in this shotgun town/What you believe is not fair/When you leave/Yeah, the world won't care". I must have been in a fucking bad mood that day. That's far too bitter for me...."
Original lyrics:
We fall in, we fall down
There's no love in this shotgun town
What you believe is not fair
When you leave, yeah, the world won't care
The ghost that is your soul, it leaves me cold, babe
The ghost that is your soul, it leaves me cold, babe
'Cause you get so high you just don't feel it
Yeah, you get so high you just can't feel it
In and out your brain, running through your veins
Got no sunshine, you got rain
That was changed to:
I get up when I’m down
I can’t swim but my soul won’t drown
I do believe I got flair
I got speed and I walk on air
‘Cos God gimme soul in your rock and roll, babe
‘Cos God gimme soul in your rock and roll, babe
And I get so high I just can’t feel it
And I get so high I just can’t feel it
In and out my brain
Running through my vein
You’re my sunshine
You’re my rain
Here's the demo, which a lot of the fans commenting on YouTube prefer to the final released version. I disagree with them - don't think these lyrics would've been a #1 single. What they changed it to was classic Oasis.
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