Album: Stop The Clocks (1995)

Charted: 17

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• I don't know what it is
  That makes me feel alive
  I don't know how to wake
  The things that sleep inside
  I only wanna see the light
  That shines behind your eyes
  
  I hope that I can say
  The things I wish I'd said
  To sing my soul to sleep
  And take me back to bed
  You want to be alone
  When we could be alive instead
  
  Because we need each other
  We believe in one another
  And I know we're going to uncover
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  Because we need each other
  We believe in one another
  I know we're going to uncover
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  
  There are many things
  That I would like to know
  And there are many places
  That I wish to go
  But everything's depending
  On the way the wind may blow
  I don't know what it is
  That makes me feel alive
  I don't know how to wake
  The things that sleep inside
  I only wanna see the light
  That shines behind your eyes
  
  Because we need each other
  We believe in one another
  And I know we're going to uncover
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  Because we need each other
  We believe in one another
  And I know we're going to uncover
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  What's sleepin' in our soul
  'Cause we believe
  'Cause we believe
  Yeah, we believe
  'Cause we believe
  'Cause we believe
  'Cause we believe
  Because we need
  Because we need Writer/s: Noel Gallagher
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Neil from NorwichIn my opinion the best and raucous song with absolute freedom throughout..!
• Paul from Kingston Upon ThamesIs it my ears, or does this song vary in speed through the verse towards the chorus and then slow up again afterwards? If this is so, i only just noticed, and i rather like the effect, it promotes a sence of the dis-ease aquiescence might bring.
• Neil from Birmingham, UkNoel probably saw greater commercial potential with 'Some Might Say', which was borne out when it made No. 1 in the UK. I hated the former but Acquiesce is, after 'Live Forever' my favourite Oasis track. I like the fact that some of their best stuff languished on B-sides. Suede had a similar tendency to put excellent tracks on the reverse. You got your money's worth from a single in the good old days.
• Nati from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAcquiesce is one of tose all-time "shoulda been an A-side". The song is about friendship in the widest sense and not, as often speculated, about the Gallagher brothers themselves. Noel sings the chorus because, he claims, Liam couldn't reach the high notes. Or he was in the pub. Whatever, it was witten on a slow train to Wales and made possible because Noel likes to travel with his guitar. (extracted from The Masterplan songbook)
• Colm from Enniskillen, IrelandIt was. It is the first track on the Masterplan Album
• Jason from Tampa, FlMerriam-Webster defines acquiesce as "to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively --often used with in and sometimes with to"
• Dylan from New Britain, CtThis is on The Masterplan.
• Dave from Liverpool, EnglandThis song should have been on an album, to think that noel classed this song as a "b" side beggars belief.

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