Oasis, The Turning lyrics meaning?

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Ayumi asked:

somebody mind interpreting?

it’s really is a beautiful song, for those who wants to listen: http://www.imeem.com/oasis/playlist/zwRUmRTz/oasis-music-playlist/

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The Turning

Eyes over the city
rise up from your soul
They hang over the streets at night
Brought on by the cold

We live with the numbers
Mining a dream for the same old song
What hope for the turning
If everything you know is wrong

If you carry the lantern
I’ll carry you home
You search for the disappeared
I’ll bury the cold

Yours is a messiah
Mine is a dream and it won’t be long
No hope for the journey
If no-one ever sees the dawn

(especially the above passages, what are they trying to say?)

So come on, shake your rag doll, baby
Before you change your mind
Then come on, when the rapture takes me
Be the fallen angel by my side
“They hang over the streets at night
Brought on by the cold”
“We live with the numbers”

“If you carry the lantern
I’ll carry you home
You search for the disappeared
I’ll bury the cold”

i find these lines most confusing






One Response to 'Oasis, The Turning lyrics meaning?'

  1. Zee - June 23rd, 2010 at 10:19 am

    I’ve never considered Oasis lyrics to be particularly deep, but it could be possible that this song is about the UK miners’ strike of 84/85 – it had a pretty huge social effect that would have easily impacted them.


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