Oasis - Champagne Supernova - Lyrics Meaning

Champagne Supernova by Oasis was released in 1995

This song describes the troubled teenage years of the Noel and Liam Gallagher, the founders of the band Oasis.

The lyrics to this song start off by the describing the relationship Noel and Liam Gallagher had with their father who left them when they were young.

The memory of him leaving them is described in the line 'Slowly walking down the hall

Faster than a cannon ball

Where were you while we were getting high?

Even at that young age they knew they would be successful and they describe that if their father ever tried to contact them at a later stage in their life he would find that they had actually made it and they would be drinking champagne and celebrating the success they had achieved the life.

The lyrics also explain how people change which refers to how their father changed from being a loving father to someone who felt that they could no longer stay in the family home and ended up leaving them.

This episode in the life of the Gallagher brothers obviously had a profound effect on their lives and it could be argued that it played a major part in making them the success they are today.