It means something different to every one of them

illustration by zebra a pois

 

This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me: "You know, the one thing that’s stopping it being a classic is the ridiculous lyrics." And I went: "What do you mean by that?" And he said: "Well, Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball — what’s that mean?" And I went: "I don’t fucking know. But are you telling me, when you’ve got 60,000 people singing it, they don’t know what it means? It means something different to every one of them."

Noel Gallagher, 2009 interview