anonymous March 15th, 2006 10:51PM  
Its about someone that was left behind by someone that they loved and truely cared for(their wonderwall) and they're afraid to tell them how they really feel because they're afraid of losing them even more. Or at least that's how I feel when I listen to the song. But it doesn't really have to have one specific meaning does it, can;t it just mean what you feel when you hear it?

cn_one April 19th, 2006 03:26AM  
I think the song is about someone who is about to be judged or put to the test by some people (1st stanza). The person is singing it to a close friend, his wonderwall, someone who inspires him and that he cares for deeply. The friend has just broken up with someone ("fire in your heart is out")maybe she was cheated on (?). She's a little confused about what to do next (And all the roads we have to walk along are winding, And all the lights that lead us there are blinding )At the same time, the person doesn't want to tell her how he feels about her because it might drive her away or he doesn't know how to tell her. The last stanza plays with the words of the original but makes it past, so that means something has happenned in the testing or the judging. The friend knows what NOT to do next time and the people who tested her know never again to test her so she either stood up for herself or reacted violently or something. Regardless, the singer still cares for the friend deeply and thinks that "maybe [she's] gonna be the one that saves [him]."

anonymous April 25th, 2006 06:31PM  
I don't think we are giving Noel Gallagher enough credit here. YES he's constructed one of the greatest love songs of all time without using the word love. But that can't possibly be his only intention, or even his deepest intention. We all know that the gallagher brothers (especially liam) have an obsession with the beatles, theyve covered almost every song written by the beatles, but then they come across this song by the beatles entitled wonderwall, not a well known song, infact most people skip this song because its just a bunch of random noises and effects (similar to the swamp song that oasis throws in every now and then on their cds) this song "wonderwall" can't be covered, so it pokes out like a soar thumb to noel. While trying to understand the song, he realizes that Harrison (the writer of wonderwall) was just throwing down music and recording it because its his love, his love is to just hear, play, record music. Hence, to noel, the title wonderwall grew into a significant word to him. The thing that you just fall in love with and can take a break from reality and spend time with. everyone has a wonderwall, whether it be music, a woman, drawing, painting, ect ect... So why not write a song about it?!

anonymous June 1st, 2006 01:45PM  
A great love song for the one he needs. For example, "Because maybe you're gonna be the one who saves me/and after all you're my wonderwall" clearly states that he
is in love with this person. It also reflects in the song that he is the only person that feels that way about her.

anonymous October 7th, 2006 09:24PM  
I always thought this song was about going to take a chance. And then missing that chance, and the song is the "many things" he can't say to her but he doesn't know how sorta thing like yah, better explanation in order:

the first verse I thought meant like getting yourself all pumped up for telling someone you love them and that they're the one and that. And you know in your head exactly what to say and how to say it and then its like he knows that he's suppose to say and that ("by now you should've some how realized what you gotta do") and he's saying that he loves her more than anyone else, "I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now". I thought the "fire" was suppose to represent happiness in her heart. And how he's saying how she's not as happy as she once was.
Then the roads winding is suppose to represent their future together and even though they're going through a hard time it was all going to work out in the end.Then he says he has so many things he has to say to her but he doesn't know how because he's too nervous and I thought that was what the chorus was.

Then the chorus goes on as maybe he's going to save him through her strength and their love, and he was her wonderwall, meaning that she was the wall that blocks him from the all of the wonders and curiosity and that she sort of satisfied that because they were to face it together.

Then the second verse I always thought was him blowing his chance because he knew what to say but then he did something wrong or said something wrong "realized what your not to do" then the chorus comes again. And yah. This song is engenius! Honestly its really easy to relate to.



Today is gonna be the day
that they're gonna throw it back to you (me
by now you should've somehow
realized what you gotta do
i don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now

backbeat the word was on the street
that the fire in your heart is out
i'm sure you've heard it all before
but you never really had a doubt
i don't believe that anybody feels
the way I do about you now

and all the roads we have to walk along are winding
and all the lights that lead us there are blinding
there are many things that I would
like to say to you
i don't know how

because maybe
you're gonna be the one who saves me
and after all
you're my wonderwall

today was gonna be the day
but they'll never throw it back to you
by now you should've somehow
realized what you're not to do
i don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do
about you now

and all the roads that lead to you were winding
and all the lights that light the way are blinding
there are many things that I would like to say to you
i don't know how

i said maybe
you're gonna be the one who saves me
and after all
you're my wonderwall

i said maybe
you're gonna be the one who saves me
and after all
you're my wonderwall

i said maybe
you're gonna be the one that saves me
you're gonna be the one that saves me
you're gonna be the one that saves me

anonymous November 25th, 2006 07:33PM  
Wonderwall is the title of a 1968 movie for which George Harrison composed the soundtrack. The story of the film revolves around a reclusive, eccentric scientist Oscar Collins whose next-door neighbors are a pop photographer and his girlfriend/model named Penny Lane. Discovering a beam of light streaming through a hole in the wall between them, Collins follows the light and spots Penny modeling for a photo shoot. Intrigued, he begins to make more holes, as days go by and they do more photo sessions. Oscar gradually becomes infatuated with the girl, and feels a part of the couple's lives, even forsaking work to observe them. When they quarrel and the couple split, Penny takes an overdose of pills and passes out, and Oscar tries to come to her rescue. Noel Gallagher claims that the song was not about Meg Mathews at all, but he felt he had to go along with the rumor, saying "The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it. How do you tell your Mrs it's not about her once she's read it is? It's a song about an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself." I believe Noel.

anonymous February 11th, 2007 07:03AM  
I think this song is about a guy that is into some self damaging things such as drugs and he is with this girl. In the beginning she has a plan to save him, by now you've figured what you've gotta do. She convinces not only herself, but also him that she can save him. Then change happens so slow, or not at all. The fire in her heart burns out and she doesn't have that drive to save him anymore. Then she realizes she can't save him, he has to save himself and her pushing the change only made it worse, she figures out what not to do.

anonymous October 16th, 2007 09:00AM  
It's somebody you can always lean on, no matter what you need their there for you.

anonymous March 6th, 2008 05:47PM  
The song is about someone falling in love with a married woman. It's about the fact, that even though it's not what either of them expect, they love each other, and that's all that matters. They've found each other, in a crazy situation.

girlshapedlovedrug May 15th, 2008 04:08AM  
According to Noel on the Stop the Clocks DVD it is a love song he wrote. But I think everyone takes a different view. Some use it as a love song, some about depression and saving yourself.
This was one of my best friend's funeral song, she was only 17 and it is her favourite song. I still think of it as a love song, but in a different sense, not a lover but for a friend that will always be there as my own leaning post - my wonderwall - even if she has gone.

I dunno, that's just how I look at it.

anonymous June 10th, 2008 04:16PM  
"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you. By now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do."

To me it's always meant that everyone was somehow relying on the person, who ended up letting everyone down (perhaps more than once.)


"I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now."
Everyone lost faith in the person except the singer who still loves them even after all their mistakes.


"Because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me.
And after all, you're my wonderwall."
He still has faith in the person and they're his everything and one day may save him from his own problems.

rainbow_veins October 6th, 2008 02:47PM  
To me, wonderwall is referring to a person. Possibly a loved one, maybe a lover.
To me this song is referring to a lover, a girl, that will always be surprising him, like a hill he will always climb but never will be able to go to the top, like a person that will keep surprising him and never bore him.
i know that this sounds stupid but that's the way I've interpreted it in my head.
like an amazing love song, devoted to a person that is compared to a wonderwall.

anonymous November 13th, 2008 11:12PM  
The person is singing to a Best friend, his wonderwall, someone who inspires him and that he cares about her more than anything. I think she is married and just scared. He fall for his best friend and don't know what to do. And at the same time everyone knows because the ("fire in your heart is out") They can't hide it any more because you can see it in there eyes! .(And all the roads we have to walk along are winding, And all the lights that lead us there are blinding ) They are not together and it's killing them that they are in two different places.(At the beginning he says he realized what he had to do) He had to let she figure out what she needs to do because it can't keep going on the way it is. He don't know what to say because she's married and he wants her to figure it out for her self. I think they could save each other.

anonymous December 18th, 2008 08:46PM  
I think this song is just about a guy who loves a girl and he can't tell her. but then she leaves him behind, while she doesn't know he likes her. I just have that same feeling. I really like this guy, but he just doesn't know and he leaves me behind. I feel so sad when I listen to this song. It makes people cry sometimes. Don't you just feel that feeling in your heart about this song?

anonymous December 29th, 2008 03:10PM  
I feel like this song is about someone who is deeply in love with someone but never really showed his feelings when he had the chance or later realized that he is in love with her more than he had realized before.. Maybe the girls has moved on now b/ he says that fire in her hear is out.
The first verse, makes me feel like she is in some kind of situation where she is moving on and she knows what she gotta do, but something that he doesn't want her to do b/ he feels like that will make him lose her.
"I don't belive that anybody feels the way I do about you now," verse that moves me the most, makes me to feel like others around them and maybe the girl doesn't really know how much deeply the guy is in love with her, and still kind of implies that he really wants to tell her how he really feels now.
But all the "roads we have to walk are winding" and "lights that lead us there are blinding," the situation is changing in a direction where it will be harder now than before for their love to come true. "There are many things I would like to say to you, but I don't know how," maybe b/ of the situation changing, he cannot tell her how he feels anymore or he is scared to b/ he feels like that will make him loose her even more than what is already happening in their lives, maybe she has moved on.. maybe to someone else, perhaps b/ she was tired of waiting for him or b/ she simply met someone else or is going away..
But he still hopes and belives in his heart that she may be the one special person for him.
"B/ maybe you're gonna be the one who saves me and after all you're my wonderwall." He still hopes and believes in his heart that she may still love him although the situation they are in makes it hard and that she may be the one special person that he will end up with later.
"Now you should've somehow realized what your're not to do," makes me feel like they are in a situation where they cannot be like before where they were able to be closer with one another. The second time, the verses are changed from all the roads "we have to walk" to are winding to all the roads that "lead to you" are winding. The road that will lead to her is slipping away, maybe they are somehow parting for now and they know that things will get harder for them to be together. But he continues to repeat that your are my "wonderwall," perhaps the very one special person that makes him truly happy in his heart, makes him come alive and free and safe, a safe haven, from the rest of world when he is with her.. He ends the song by repeating, "I said maybe," he doesn't want to let go and can't let go of the special feeling that he has about her, "you're gonna be the one that saves me," his belief that she may be the one that he will eventually end up with no matter what happens now, that they are meant for each other, that they are meant to be together eventually.

rachelknowsitall January 11th, 2009 08:10PM  
OK so theres a movie called Wonderwall made in 1968 about a reclusive scientist whose next door neighbors are a photographer and his model girlfriend named Penny Lane (the Beatles did the whole soundtrack) and one day the scientist sees light coming thru his wall so he follows the light and sees Penny during a photo shoot through a hole in the wall. well he makes more holes and becomes intrigued and obesessed and feels as if he is a part of the couples lives. well the couple gets in a fight and penny lane takes an overdose of pills and the scientist sees and goes and saves her. the song is very parallelled to the movie and u should see it if u ever get a chance :)

anonymous February 23rd, 2009 09:51PM  
Gallagher has stated before it's about an imaginary friend that's gonna save you from yourself

anonymous April 12th, 2009 06:02PM  
noel said in an interview that the song is actually about an imaginary friend who he wanted to save him from his self!!! at the time he wrote it the media said it was dedicated to his (at the time girlfriend) noel said he cudnt tell his misses that it wasnt so he went along with it....

anonymous April 30th, 2009 07:46AM  
well i heard that oasis didnt actually write the song, one of their mates did, and he was real caught up in drugs and stuff and it was slowly killing him, then he fell in love with a chick and she 'saved him' from it all and helped him get clean. sorry if somones alrady posted that i coodnt be bothered looking thru them all.

em_chndlr May 2nd, 2009 02:04AM  
I meet this guy that I had known for a few years for real for the first time. He's so amazing that I can't describe how I feel in words. Its just not possible. When I herd this song I thought of us. " Backbeat the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out". Josh, that's his name, had ended a 4 year relationship and I felt that this line kinda showed that he was kinda of done with bullshit that he had been through and I felt like the fire in his heart was out. But now with us knowing each other I don't think anyone will ever like him the way I do know. That old relationship doesn't matter anymore. The same had happened to me but we found each other in a a way that just seems right. "There are many things that I would Like to say to you I don't know how." Josh leaves me speechless Im not a very quite person but when I'm near him its as if there's no need for words but there is still so much I want to say. Josh is going to be the one that saves me and I him. I think we're both eachothers wonderwall.