Taken from the new issue of MOJO that is on sale now.
Noel’s lyrics have taken some stick, often from NOEL. Here’s his take on them.
"I like the lyrics to Morning Glory. “Tomorrow never knows what it doesn’t know too soon” – what the fuck does that mean? Well I don’t f*cking know. I only wrote it. But those lyrics, they were tied up in the times, and every-thing around that time was vital. I couldn’t sit and write lyrics like that now, because there’s too much baggage and you second-guess yourself as you get longer into it. Between Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants and Heathen Chemistry, I kind of fell into the trap of trying to sum up the meaning of life in every f*cking song. Since then I’ve rediscovered my interest in watching the clock go around or queuing up for a pint of milk.
Some of that stuff, you had to be there. Most of the songs I write, they’re there, in my head, music and lyrics. When it comes the time to commit it to paper, it’s just a matter of filling in the gaps for Liam. All the lyrics to Morning Glory were just in the air. I’d have the first line of every verse, and the chorus I’d have. All the lyrics to that were written when I was 22, 23.
There were lines that would tie all the songs together that were written, for want of a better word, in the f*cking Britpop madness. But it would be wrong to say that I wrote a song about what was happening at the time. I’d never be able to look myself in the mirror. Write a song about being famous?"