Pop Song 421 of 500 'Don't Look Back in Anger' Oasis 1996

Pop Song 421 of 500 'Don't Look Back in Anger' Oasis 1996

"Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song, he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fit, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there." He explained the song by saying, "It's about not being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been."

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you'd never been
But all the things that you've seen
Will slowly fade away
So I start a revolution from my bed
'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
And so Sally can wait
She knows its too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger" I heard you say
Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock n' Roll band
Who'll throw it all away
Gonna start a revolution from my bed
'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside 'cause summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
'Cause you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
And so Sally can wait
She knows its too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger" I heard you say
So Sally can wait
She knows its too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger" I heard you say
So Sally can wait
She knows its too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger, don't look back in anger"
I heard you say
At least not today