Songfacts®:

• Noel Gallagher first began working on a song in the early 1990s. It appears on many lists in his notebooks from that period, which were auctioned at Christie's in 1998. "Half of it was used for the Chemical Brothers track," he recalled to Mojo magazine." I had that song knocking around from before we got signed. I thought I'll use that verse because it fits and I'll write another one. It took nearly 20 years."
  
• Gallagher has always liked the chorus, but could never find a way of tying it all together. As a result, it was shelved from Oasis albums. Explaining how it finally made it onto a record, Gallagher said during a Facebook Q&A : "I always meant to finish it off. One afternoon I was coming out of the Tesco Metro in Maida Vale, where I live, and I don't know what it was, but it just hit me, coming round the corner, just by Boots, it came to me in a flash of inspiration."