Album: Definitely Maybe (1994)

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• (I've seen so much disgust, mother)
  (Take me into your arms)
  (How am I to protect you?)
  
  There we were, now here we are
  All this confusion, nothing's the same to me
  There we were, now here we are
  All this confusion, nothing's the same to me
  
  I can't tell you the way I feel
  Because the way I feel is oh, so new to me
  I can't tell you the way I feel
  Because the way I feel is oh, so new to me
  
  What I heard is not what I hear
  I can see the signs but they're not very clear
  What I heard is not what I hear
  I can see the signs but they're not very clear
  
  So I can't tell you the way I feel
  Because the way I feel is oh, so new to me
  I can't tell you the way I feel
  Because the way I feel is oh, so new to me
  
  This is confusion, am I confusing you?
  This is confusion, am I amusing you?
  This is peculiar, we don't want to fool ya
  This is peculiar, we don't want to fool ya
  
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
  (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Writer/s: Noel Gallagher
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 8

• Blobby Gillespie from LondonThis is the acid house tune that 'Columbia' rips off - Axe Corner 'Tortuga'. Released early 1991. https://youtu.be/oCKOGawikz8
• Thomas from Parisnobody noticed the riff is the same as the Fly from U2 - released the year before Oasis played Columbia in 1991 in Manchester?
• Dr Kecks from SpaceCompletely ripped off from "Blue Cat" by the Clouds from their Bingo Clubs Millenium Ball EP from 1992
  https://youtu.be/MA0Je3odOkY
• Lukas from Panevëþys, Lithuaniathere was made a documentary about oasis named "There we were, now here we are". those lines are from song lyrics
• Simon from London, EnglandJust a rocking tune, typifies London of the early 90's, under a blizzard of coke. Stick the tune on, turn up to 10 and imagine just being there when they played this live.Awesome !
• Ben from Whittier, Canoel wrote this song while working in the british gas Company. he lift a gas tank but another one fell on his foot shaterd it badly so he work in a storehouse for a while in his free time he played guitar and claims that he wrote Columbia also other songs.
• Brendan from York, Englandits called columbia cos thats the hotel they were stayin in at the time
• Matt from Bristol, EnglandThe lyrics are about cocaine. They just called it columbia cos thats where Noel was when he wrote it

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