Originally released as a B-side to Some Might Say (1995). Can be found on the album The Masterplan (1998).
This song’s one of the first conceptions of this band. It was the beginning of the summer of 2006 and I was driving with my brother Ilkka towards Uimaharju and a small-scale sports-day (meaning playing some tennis and maybe doing some track & field). Just when we came to Uimaharju’s roundabout we put The Masterplan to CD-drive. That album starts with Acquiesce.
The song’s lyrics were about things that a boy who just had got to mature age of 14 had never heard anyone sing about. Neither had any band sounded like Oasis on this song.
Both of the Gallagher-brothers sing in this one (that’s rare!) because Noel claims Liam was in a bar during the recording of the refrains. However, the alternation gives this song a certain dimension.
“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
(And) 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”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCwvCmA5NgJulkaistu alunperin Some Might Say-sinkun B-puolella (1995). Löytyy albumilta The Masterplan (1998).
Ensimmäisiä mielikuvia tästä bändistä. Oli kesän alku 2006, kun ajeltiin veli Ilkan kanssa kohti Uimaharjua ja pienimuotoista urheilupäivää (eli tenniksen peluuta ja mahdollisesti yleisurheilua). Juuri Uimaharjun kiertoliittymän kohdalla iskettiin soimaan The Masterplan, jonka avausbiisinä on Acquiesce.
Biisissä laulettiin sellaisista asioista, joista kypsään 14-vuoden ikään mennessä en ollut kenenkään kuullut laulavan. Eikä sen puoleen mikään bändikään ollut soittanut sellaisella soundilla, kuin Oasis tällä biisillä.
Molemmat veljekset laulavat tässä (harvinaista!), koska Noel väittää että Liam oli baarissa kertosäkeiden nauhoituksen aikaan. Mutta kyllä tämä biisi saa siitä aivan ulottuvuuden.
“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
(And) 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”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCwvCmA5Ng