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Explication of "Wonderwall"- Oasis
Poetry Explication
Wonderwall
Oasis

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
But I don't know how

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me?
And after all you’re my wonderwall

Today was gonna be the day
But they'll never throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you're not to do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

I said maybe (I said maybe)
You're gonna be the one that saves me?
And after all you’re my wonderwall

I said maybe (I said maybe) you’re gonna be the one that saves me (saves me) you’re gonna be the one that saves me (saves me) you’re gonna be the one that saves me (saves me)

The song Wonderwall represents someone or something that a man cannot stop thinking about. In this case, it happens to be about a woman. The songs starts by saying that today is going to be the day; the day he will get an opportunity to tell his crush how he feela. Some people may “throw it back” at him and make fun of him, but this is his chance. He “realizes what he’s got to do”; he must tell her because it has been too long and he knows that nobody could possibly feel

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