“Bring It On Down” is one of several songs from Oasis’s early period that evoke the feeling of living in working class council estate communities in Britain. With a pounding drum track and Liam Gallagher’s vocals high in the mix, later distorting as if through a megaphone, it’s one of the strongest...
[Verse 1]
What was that sound ringing around your brain?
Today was just a blur, you've got a head like a ghost train
What was that sound ringing around your brain?
You're here on your own who you gonna find to blame?
[Chorus]
You're the outcast
You're the underclass
But you don't care, because you're living fast
You're the uninvited guest who stays till the end
I know you've got a problem that the devil sends
You think they're talking 'bout you, but you don't know who
I'll be scraping their lives from the sole of my shoe tonight
[Instrumental break]
[Bridge]
Bring it on down, bring it down for me
Your head's in a fish tank
Your body and your mind can't breathe
[Bridge]
Bring it on down, bring it out of me
Your head's in a fish tank
Your body and your mind can't breathe
[Chorus]
You're the outcast
You're the underclass
But you don't care, because you're living fast
You're the uninvited guest who stays 'till the end
I know you've got a problem that the devil sends
You think they're talking 'bout you, but you don't know who
I'll be scraping their lives from the sole of my shoe tonight
Bring It on Down was written by Noel Gallagher.
Bring It on Down was produced by Oasis & Mark Coyle.
Oasis released Bring It on Down on Mon Aug 29 1994.
Noel has said that the song is about:
… the uninvited guest who turns up at parties and nobody likes but everybody knows, who stays till the end.
He has later described the song:
We smashed it when we used to play it live. I love the guitar solo and the drop down in the middle. Alan McGee obsesse...