Morning Glory (Oasis Song) - History

History

Gallagher claims that he was drunk while writing it. According to Noel, parts of the song were inspired by walking while listening to a Walkman ("walking to the sound of my favourite tune") and using cocaine ("all your dreams are made/when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade"), since razors are often used to cut cocaine into lines on a mirror, from which they are then snorted. It has been suggested that the song is about drug addiction in general ("need a little time to wake up/need a little time to rest your mind/you know you should so I guess you might as well").

The line "Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon" seems to reference The Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows", though Gallagher claims to have completely forgotten why he felt it was relevant to the song. Over the years the song was regular on their live performance set.

According to Gallagher in a 2005 interview, the song originated from an early song called "Blue". The lyrics were something along the lines of:

"I live my life in blue,
There's nothing anyone can do"

...which he decreed to be "fucking awful." There was also an early song written by Noel, entitled "The Mirror and the Razorblade", where the first verse went:

"The mirror and the razorblade,
If you live round here it's where your dreams are made,
There's no beach, no bucket and spade,
For me"

...the second verse went:

"Rainy Monday afternoon,
All you need is your favourite tune,
The end of the day can't come too soon,
For me"

...and the third verse went:

"Remember what we used to say,
The dreams we'd dream and the games we'd ,
It doesn't matter anymore anyway,
To me"

• In October 2005, a remix of the song was released on the soundtrack to the movie Goal!. It was done by Don't Believe the Truth producer Dave Sardy.

• The song is included on Oasis' compilation album Stop the Clocks.

• 'Morning glory' in British slang is considered to be an erection after sleep.

• On the album, the song segues into the 40-second untitled track, which in turn segues into "Champagne Supernova". This is the same thing that happens on Stop the Clocks, except the untitled track is not included, leaving the water sounds from "Morning Glory" to directly segue straight into "Champagne Supernova".

• The song was used in the British film Red Road. It plays over a scene of a party in a Glasgow flat.

• Noel was pushed on stage during a live performance in 2008 of the song right before they were able to sing the title verse portion and had to end the performance of the song and moved on to The Importance of Being Idle.

• The 2010 film Morning Glory used the tagline, What's The Story, Morning Glory? as a reference to the title track and the title track's namesake album.