Once I read someone saying that Jealous Guy (iirc) by John Lennon was a love song, but since it was confirmed that it was about Paul, then turns out it wasn't a love song after all, because it couldn't POSSIBLY be about Paul and a love song at the same time, apparently.
This same phenomenon happens with Oasis, but with every single song. Because omg the Gallagher brothers are not subtle at all and yet! You'd think "I could be your lover, you could be all mine" in a song called "Guess God Thinks I'm ABEL" (as in the famous biblical character murdered by his brother) would do the trick, but nope. Or the mere FACT that there is an officially released Oasis song that contains the lyrics "you're my lover, I'm your brother" and people act like it doesn't say what it says. Like it isn't a song about incest written and played by a band that is infamous for the fact that it's headed by TWO BROTHERS that admit they WRITE SONGS ABOUT EACH OTHER. They talk through songs. And people act like the recurring brother/sister motif is a concidence that happens to appear a lot in Oasis lyrics!
"Oh it's about the band Sister Lover that played with them" my dude I DON'T CARE where Noel took the guts to do it, he wrote them lyrics and gave it to HIS BROTHER TO SING! Noel Gallagher wrote the words "you're my lover, I'm your brother" and his brother Liam Gallagher sang it like he meant it. It clearly gives Noel the thrill, to expose and be able to explain it away. Or watch people squirm but not have the guts to ask or double down. To talk about his crime and get away with it.
And I'm not even talking about the hiding, the shame, the crime, the sin, the religious guilt themes in the songs. The constant use of God/soul as representation for Liam. The obsessive need to have him.
"There are things calling my mind/Nobody knows what's wrong/Except me and my brother (...) And I feel no shame at all" (If We Shadows - Oasis)
To me, If We Shadows is even more incrimating than GGTIA and My Sister Lover, because it is about hiding feelings that are wrong, and that he should be ashamed of, but he isn't. And he mentions one brother, singular, which by itself rule out the possibility of it being about shared childhood trauma, since they have an older brother.
"Now that you're mine/We'll find a way/Of chasing the sun/Let me be the one who shines with you" (Slide Away - Oasis)
God bless the Louise Jones framing, because it makes people turn blind deaf and dumb when faced with a current belonging, the sun chasing (persue of a dream together) and a person that shines and makes Noel want to shine with them. Wanna know who fits perfectly? Liam. And Liam knows it, beause he makes a point of making it clear it's about him.
"And there'll be no eyes/No eyes that see such beauty would lose their sight/And there'll be no lies/No lies that you could tell me to make things right (...) Doesn't fill me with hope for the songs that you sing/Tonight, this is your life/Angel child" (Angel Child - Oasis)
First time I saw someone contemplating about this song, they were claiming it was about Anaïs. Well it can't possibly be because this song was released in june 1997 and Anaïs was born in january 2000. It also can't be because there's an element of shame in it too, along with some things that wouldn't fit a newborn daughter. But there was someone in Noel's life that had "such beauty", who is an absolute dreamer that wear their heart on their sleeve and could tell Noel things that he'd deem "lies to make things right" and the only person he'd sing "when you find out who you are you know you'll be free to see your own ability" and never say to their face and this person is, again, Liam.
"I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now/And all the roads we have to walk are winding/And all the lights that lead us there are blinding/There are many things that I would like to say to you/But I don't know how/Because maybe/You're gonna be the one that saves me/And after all/You're my wonderwall" (Wonderwall - Oasis)
If you know the lore, you know it's about Liam, there's no going around it. Noel just said it's about Meg because it had to be about Meg at the time, but even their fuckass dad got that it was about Liam. I just love this bit so much, had to include it alongside the other ones.
"Said I would I'll be leaving one day/Before my heart starts to burn (...) There is one thing I can never give you/My heart will never be your home" (Stand By Me - Oasis)
Can't say he never warned Liam. In Stand By Me, of all songs. Pleading Liam to stand by, to take him if he leaves, to look behind the door (Noel and them doors) with him, only to keep him at arms length like that.
"Me and you, what's going on?/All we seem to know is how to show the feelings that are wrong" (Don't Go Away - Oasis)
Same album/time period of Stand By Me and If We Shadows. Again feelings that are wrong and things caught in the mind. This bit specifically reminds me of the "how can we go on like brothers when we do this?" note. Liam couldn't record Don't Go Away at first because he was crying too much. It really got to him. Pretty normal and well regulated stuff.
"Take me when I'm young and true/Was it me or was it you/Take me when I start to cry/Take me, take me, don't ask why" (Take Me - The Rain/Oasis)
Liam and Bonehead's doing. Someone said it would be funny if the lyrics were mostly Bonehead's and yeah it would, because I don't take Bonehead to be this fucked in the head, begging to be claimed "when I start to cry" like that. Liam is, though. And also Noel's lowkey obsessed with it, Liam must have made crazy eye contact with him while singing it at the Broadwalk, I'd bet money on that.
"You're the devil in me, I brought in from the cold/You said your body was young but your mind was very old/You're coming on strong and I like the way/The visions we have are fading away/You're part of a life I've never had/You know, I'll tell you man, it's just too bad" (Setting Sun - Oasis)
Iirc, there's a really good analysis of this song with Take Me, as in Liam was coming on strong. The thing that solidifies it being about Liam though are the good ol guilt in it, but also the "I'll tell you man", which we sometimes may find as "now" in the wild but I've never heard tbh.
"Everybody knows... but no one's saying nothing/It was a sound so very loud... that no one can hear" (My Big Mouth - Oasis)
"'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe/And I get so high I just can't feel it/In and out my brain/You're runnin' through my vein/You're my sunshine/You're my rain" (The Hindu Times - Oasis)
"Head over heels in love with each other" era, such an underrated gcest song!
"You could be my enemy/I guess there's still time/I'd get 'round to loving you/Is that such a crime? (...) No one can break us/No one could take us/If we try" (Guess God Thinks I'm Abel - Oasis)
Liam's. I know I already mentioned GGTIA, but I needed to bring it up again to do it justice. Liam borrowing the "crime" motif from Noel for SOME REASON IDK MAYBE THEY JUST LIKE COMMITING CRIMES IDK that's so RANDOM.
"Let there be love/If I ever knew/That all the thing's I've thought/Are coming right back to you/But everybody thinks that it's a crime" (It's A Crime/Let The Be Love demo - Oasis)
Do I HAVE to say anything? Noel and his criminal obsessive love strike again. There is also some shame element in the lyrics, as well. Ugh, he IS consistent!
"She wore a star-shaped tambourine/Prettiest girl I'd ever seen (...) Lock all the doors/Maybe they'll never find us/I could be sure, like never before, this time/Get on the floor!/Turn all the lights off inside/I could be sure, like never before, this time" (Lock All The Doors - NGHFB)
You've heard of My Sister Lover, now get ready for its alt version. I was going to focus solely on Oasis songs, but this is basically an old Oasis song Noel revamped and included the star-shaped tambourine bit because he is absolutely insane. My guy, you gifted your brother a star-shaped tambourine and this is basically the other half of the song that became My Sister Lover like... subtlety found dead in a ditch ig. Still got away with it though so 👍👍.
And considering all their history, the quotes, the public kissing, the groping and all that, there's no reason to strip these songs off the meaning of them just to fit a more palatable narrative. Wonderwall is a love song and it is about Liam and these two concepts exist in the same universe. Deal with it. Guess God Thinks I'm Abel is a love song for Noel, I don't think anyone has ever had the energy to deny it because Noel made a point to clarify to the press that it was about him, then what? Liam is delulu and weird, ignore him? Incest bait for clout even when no one seems to care?
It is sick and twisted and that's why the songs exist in the first place, that's even how N and L ended up in the same rock n roll band ffs.
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