Oasis - Wonderwall Lyrics Meaning

This is a song about the singer's thoughts on The Beatles. The music video is a BIG giveaway.

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
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

(The Beatles are now a thing of the past. The singer wants their memory to live on, but no one wants to remember them in the way that he does.)

Backbeat the word is 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

(Others have tried to keep The Beatles' memory alive, but the spark of inspiration has burnt out, thus the singer believes he can revive this spark.)

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you but
I don't know how

(The singer doesn't know how to keep The Beatles' memory alive, since he's young and of another time. He doesn't know what the appropriate response would be to remembering them. Hence, "There are things that I would like to say to you, but don't know how.")

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You're my wonderwall

(Yet, despite the singer's frustration with keeping The Beatles' memory alive, he still views them as his single source of inspiration - his muse.)

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

(Today is the day the singer feels The Beatles will truly be appreciated, still, no one has yet to fully embrace The Beatles' true legacy.)