00:15Everybody is on the run, what can I tell you about that?
00:18It was written in South America at the end of the last Oasis tour
00:26and there's a version of it in the soundcheck from, I'm not sure where the soundcheck is from
00:34but I was kind of writing it on the road, it's been up there for about two years
00:39so most people have heard it
00:43it's, what can I tell you about it, it's got a hundred piece choir on it
00:46and a twenty four piece string section, all female
00:56the reason it's the first track, it's quite an epic sounding thing
00:59and the strings are very Ennio Morricone-esque
01:06and it's quite an epic track, it's usually one that you don't really put as a first track on an
01:12album
01:12you usually put short songs, this is quite long
01:14and it's like a five course meal almost
01:18but it sets up the narrative of the album quite well
01:26yeah, it's kind of a bit of a...
01:32it's the most poppy thing on the album
01:34and it's the one that's most likely to get people to pogo
01:40I suppose
01:42probably why I don't like it
01:43I do like it
01:44it's great to play live
01:50er...
01:50that's... where was that?
01:51I can't remember when that was written
01:53it's a good song
01:54the words don't mean a great deal
01:56it's fucking nonsense really
01:57but erm...
01:59it's a toe tapper
02:01that's for sure
02:02yeah
02:02so you like it, do you?
02:04why?
02:05I struggled with it for a while
02:07thinking it sounded a bit like madness
02:11it's not that it's Scar
02:13if anyone's fucking watching this
02:15it's not Scar
02:19but er...
02:20it... yeah, I don't know
02:21maybe I'm underselling it
02:23it is good
02:23it's fucking brilliant
02:24it's genius, what can I fucking say
02:26it's one of the best songs I've ever written
02:27haha
02:29on that leg of the...
02:30er... of the...
02:31Oasis tour
02:33there was a South American bit
02:34where I wrote
02:35if I had a gun
02:37everybody's on the run
02:41there was another one
02:42which I can't fucking remember what it was now
02:44but it was definitely those two
02:45and I was sound...
02:46I was...
02:46after the sound checks would finish
02:48I would kind of just stay behind and
02:51kind of feel out the words and stuff
02:53and kind of flesh out the arrangements
02:54and of course when you're playing in the big arenas
02:57and you're just playing acoustic guitar singing
02:58it sounds like...
02:59it sounds like God
03:00do you know what I mean?
03:02and erm...
03:02unbeknownst to me
03:03there's people there with mobile phones
03:05taping them
03:07erm...
03:07so that...
03:09ended up on the internet
03:10and erm...
03:11for a long time it was gonna be
03:15my first single
03:17until
03:18I had a moment
03:20of clarity
03:22it was literally on the day
03:23that it was
03:24gonna go to press
03:26and
03:26be announced
03:28I decided to change it
03:29because erm...
03:31I just thought it was a bit
03:34it's kind of one of the...
03:35it's...
03:37it's
03:37it's kind of a song you'd expect me to write
03:39do you know what I mean?
03:41as great as it is
03:43which it is
03:44and as direct
03:45and
03:46as
03:50er...
03:51emotionally uplifting
03:52as it is
03:54er...
03:54I just felt that
03:55it was maybe
03:56a bit obvious
03:58as a first single
03:59you know
04:00it was a bit too
04:01ta-da
04:02I'm back
04:03kind of thing
04:04well I've got to say
04:05it's the only
04:06conscious decision
04:07I've made to be different
04:08on the entire album
04:09I know there's like
04:10what a life
04:11is
04:12not something you would associate
04:13with me but erm...
04:15that song just
04:16kind of
04:17kind of
04:19it kind of took a left turn
04:21when I was
04:21writing it
04:22and I kind of went with the idea
04:23but
04:26with er...
04:26I was saying
04:27if I had a gun
04:27it was gonna be the first single
04:29until the day
04:29it was like
04:30we were gonna announce it
04:32and for whatever reason
04:33I just changed my mind
04:34and I said I want it to be
04:35the death of you and me
04:37and everyone was going
04:38what the fuck for?
04:40and I was like
04:41because I think people
04:41are gonna expect
04:44are gonna expect that
04:45kind of thing
04:46do you know what I mean?
04:47and er...
04:48I didn't want to come back
04:49with a bang
04:50I wanted to come back with a whisper
04:51you know and just
04:53say to people
04:55shhh...
04:55it's trumpets
04:57well this one is
04:58obviously it was recorded
05:00er...
05:01er...
05:02it was recorded for
05:03Don't Believe The Truth
05:06Liam either
05:07I can't remember now
05:08refused to sing it
05:09or couldn't sing it
05:11don't know what it was
05:12then we recorded it again
05:15for Dig Out Your Soul
05:16and it had
05:19er...
05:20it had a choir on it
05:21remember when Neil Young
05:22made that album
05:22Living The War
05:23and he'd done it with that choir
05:24we had that choir
05:26singing the part on it
05:27a hundred piece choir
05:28and
05:29for whatever reason
05:30I think Liam had
05:31fucked off home
05:32to fucking get married
05:32or something
05:34it's a shame
05:35it was that close
05:36to being finished
05:37and it would have made
05:38Dig Out Your Soul
05:40another ten percent better
05:41you know what I mean
05:43so he never got around
05:44to singing it
05:45and er...
05:46when it came to do it this time
05:47I was determined
05:50to get it out there
05:51because it's been sitting around
05:51for ten years
05:52and er...
05:53again
05:54somebody had put it on the internet
05:55a version of it
05:56with me singing it
05:57because...
05:58when we had our own studio
05:59on Wheeler End
06:01some little fucker
06:02who used to work there
06:03who got the sack
06:04had a load of the demos
06:06and er...
06:07we could have
06:08had them taken down
06:09but I was like
06:09oh fuck it
06:10leave them up there
06:10you know what I mean
06:11it's like...
06:12it's a gift
06:12for the kids
06:15and erm...
06:16so I re-recorded it
06:18done the choir
06:19and the strings
06:19at er...
06:20Abbey Road
06:22er...
06:22with the Crouch End
06:23festival chorus
06:27erm...
06:27shifted it up a key
06:28to suit my voice
06:29and...
06:30it's the most Oasis
06:31sounding thing
06:32on the record
06:32I mean...
06:33it was written for Oasis
06:34I think...
06:35that's all
06:35but I was like
06:35I don't know
06:36I want to know
06:36that it is
06:36that it is
06:36of the people
06:36what I love
06:36String
06:36or
06:39what I love
06:39You
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