"Don't Look Back in Anger" OASIS

My Facebook post this morning:

"I was thinking yesterday about the bombings in Thailand and Bangladesh that sit alongside the equally senseless act in Manchester and how that instance might even be enough to reunite two brothers for a concert some time as part of a defiant or hopeful response!!

Alongside the selfless acts of caring and offering of refuge in the wake of the terrorist bomb in Manchester I see this morning that the crowd in the city for a time of silence then also spontaneously started singing Oasis "Don't Look Back in Anger"!! In the world of social media the immediacy was palpable in both news and mobile phone versions...

The song gave way to a football chant from some, there were flowers, balloons and a 'sea of people'...

I wonder about spirit and solidarity and current day crowds in the secular west finding ways to express the grief, yearning and hopes present somewhere in such horrific happenings."

"Don't Look Back in Anger" OASIS

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play?
You said that you'd never been
But all the things that you've seen
They slowly fade away

So I'll start a revolution from my bed
Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

And so, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
But please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock 'n' Roll band
Who'll throw it all away

I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed
Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, 'cause summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace

Take that look from off your face
Cause you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

And so, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
I heard you say

So, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
I heard you say

So, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
Don't look back in anger
I heard you say

At least not today

Make of it what you will, it was one persons spontaneous action, then another to encourage people to sing up, with words of defiance and spirit that won't have captured everyone but did seem to reflect something important if awkward!!