Hello! Here I am again, to give y'all your weekly content.
So! Now that I inaugurated this account again, I'll come back to the chronological order plan of posting. We are on Early Years, and the first post was about how the things started between them. Following the order, now, we'll have a lyric analysis. Actually, it's not even a "lyric analysis", because the lyrics are pretty clear (ha), but it will be a conversation about the song.
And, as you read on the title, the song chosen is Take Me.
Click on the cut below to read more about the wise heterosexual lyrics by Liam Gallagher!
Disclaimer: this is a theory made by myself, based in conversations I had with my friends and months of analysis, suffering, nights of insomnia and tears. Don't know if everything is veridical, but at least, it's a way that I found to "light" up our way and try to find some proper fucking answers to this stuff.
Well, first, I should introduce you to Take Me.
Take Me is a song written by Liam, when he was already on the band and the band was already called Oasis. The song is this one and the lyrics, in case you don't know, go like this:
Take me when I'm young and true
Was it me or was it you?
Take me when I'm not so strong
Why has it taken you so long?
Take me when you feel I've gone
I always knew I could be someone
Take me if you think you're right
Do it now before it's light
Take me if you think I'm sweet
Though my life feels incomplete
Take me when I wish to live
For I still have this to give
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
Wow. As I said before: wise heterosexual lyrics by Liam Gallagher.
Anyway, let's get it started!
The song was written by Liam, on Oasis, and the point is that, when Noel arrived from the Inspirals tour, in 91, the song was already written and done, not only because Tony McCarroll said it on his book, but because when Noel went to see them perform on the Boardwalk on 18th August 1991, they already had their repertory, which included, for example, Reminisce, Alice, AND Take Me.
Well, so let's continue on the timeline: Noel went to see them perform and a time after that, Liam invited him to the band, and everything was OK.
Anyway, the lyrics have a big sexual connotation, and nobody can deny it. In one of the Oasis books (which I don't know which is, sorry, but I think it might be Take Me There by Paul Marthur), it's claimed that Take Me is an """unwitting"""ode to gay sex. So, yes, it definitely refers to a guy:
And it’s not the only media report (if we can call it like that) that associated Take Me to homosexuality: in 2002, an interview (sorry, I couldn’t find it) said:
“Liam's lyrics, meanwhile, have some perplexing content. Oddly, they could be seen to wanly echo the homoerotic passivity Morrissey adopted on the likes of This Charming Man. ‘Take me when I'm young and true...’ goes Take Me. ‘Take me when I'm not so strong/Why has it taken you so long... Do it now before it's light’."
An important fact is that Noel LIKED the lyrics, as said on Tony's book and in this quote I've already seen on Oasis fan sites a thousand times:
"Also the demo of 'Take Me' - which can only be found on bootlegs - was written by Liam (lyrics) and Bonehead (instrumental) and has a continuous guitar line […] As a demo, the recording is very rough but the song is fantastic (putting it mildly) and Noel was said to have begged Liam to record it properly but never did."
"To record it properly" refers to the Definitely Maybe recording sessions, in fact. To me, the fact Liam didn't want to record it properly and show his creation to the world is due to the song be something really intimate for him.
But the point is that: Noel liked it, and I'm pretty sure it's due the fact of the sexual connotation of the song. But it wasn't a random one: it was a sexual connotation coming from Liam – referring to a male figure on the song. And we know, based on my first post on this blog, that Noel was already interested on Liam by the time both were on Oasis. Maybe, for Noel, these lyrics increased the idea of Liam not being a innocent lad anymore. And that must have pleased Noel.
Back to the lyrics: we have two plausible options for the whole story of Take Me, which I'm going to list for you right now:
1-) The lyrics have something to do with Noel
I personally don't agree with this one, but we can't let any evidence out. It might would be the reason for Noel like the lyrics so much: maybe they had a little thing before, Liam wrote about it, Noel identified it as soon as he read it, and that's it.
The problem with this option is that Liam wrote it before Noel was back from the tour, and I highly doubt they had something between them before Noel entered on Oasis. So, it's up to you to consider it veridic or not.
2-) The lyrics talk about a one night stand Liam had
This is the option which I think is more probable to be true. One fine night, walking down the streets of Manchester, going to Hacienda and stuff, William met a sweet boy after drinking (a lot), and the end of story is: they made out.
Seriously now: at least for me, the lyrics talk about a one night stand Liam had with a random guy. I doubt he was sober, to be honest, but, yeah, he did it. Afterwards, regretted or not, he wrote about it. And that lead us to a huge point:
Noel was not Liam's first man.
And that leads us to the following point: if Liam’s almost 90% of the time straight (the exceptions include Noel, Bonehead, Bono and street guards), why would he hook up with a guy? Besides the drinking, of course.
Well, my answer is: Noel had a certain fame in Manchester – the so well known Manchester Mauler – and I always wondered if Liam knew it. The thing is that, maybe, Liam did know about Noel's fame and that made him mirror that experience (making out with a guy) on Noel, since Noel was like an example for him. And not only this: maybe this was just another one way of searching for Noel’s approval.
After all, we come back to the situation of Noel liking the song and wanting to record it: maybe, with this song, Noel realised that he would might have a chance with Liam. Or maybe because it provoked him, challenged him. And, well, we all know what happened then.
That's it, I guess! Thank you for reading, I appreciate your support. Reblog if you don't mind on having incest on your blog, feel free to send me a message, I'll love to read it!
