All Around the World by Oasis: Lyrics and History

"All Around the World" is an epic song by Britpop kings, Oasis. 

It was released on 12 January 1998, hitting  number 1 in the UK Singles Chart; it is the longest single ever to do so.  So that's longer than the Beatles' Hey Jude! which was number one in 1968.

"All Around the World", nearly ten minutes long, is drugged out with string and horn pieces, and is followed up on the end of Be Here Now with  a two-minute-long instrumental, "All Around the World (Reprise)".

Unsurprisingly it also features a backing vocal in the coda remarkably similar to the corresponding section in The Beatles' song "Hey Jude".

All Around the World was written by Noel Gallagher, and there are recorded sessions of the band rehearsing it at the Boardwalk club as early as 1992 but it was not used until Oasis' third album Be Here Now when the band could really afford the overblown production.

Here's the Lyrics to All Around the World:

Its a bit early in the midnight hour for me,
To go through all the things that I want to be,
I don't believe in everything I see,
Y'know I'm blind so why dyou disagree

Take me away, cos I just don't want to stay,
And the relise you make me say are getting deeper every day,

These are crazy days but they make me shine,
Time keeps rolling by.

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
Youre gonna make a better day.

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
You know it's gonna be okay.

What you gonna do when the walls come falling down,
You never move you never make a sound,
When you gonna swin with the ridges that you found,
If you're lost at sea well I hope that you drown,

Take me away, cos I just don't want to stay,
And the lies you make me say are getting deeper every day,

These are crazy days but they make me shine,
Time keeps rolling by.

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
And all around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
You know it's gonna be okay.

Nanana, nanana, nananana nananaaa,
Nanana, nanana, nananana nananaaa,
Naaaa, naaaa, naaaaa, naaaaa, nanananana,
Nanananana, nanananana,

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
Youre gonna make a better day.

And all around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
You know it's gonna be okay.

Cos all around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
Youre gonna make a better day.

And all around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
You know it's gonna be okay.

Its gonna be okay.!
Its gonna be okay.!
Its gonna be okay.!
Its gonna be okay.!

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
Youre gonna make a better day,

Cos all around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
You know it's gonna be okay.

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
Youre gonna make a better day,

All around the world,
You gotta spread the word,
Tell em what you heard,
You know it's gonna be okay.

La lalalala la lalala la,
La lalalala la lalala la.

And I know what I know,
What I know what I know,
Yeah I know what I know,
Its gonna be okay.

And I know what I know,
What I know what I know,
Yeah I know what I know,
Its gonna be okay.

And I know what I know,
What I know what I know,
Yeah I know what I know,
Its gonna be okay.

And I know what I know,
What I know what I know
Yeah I know what I know
Pigs don't fly - never say die.!!!

So things are gonna fly - never say die.!!!
Things are gonna fly - never say die.

Nanana, nanana,
Nananana nananaaa nanana,
Nanana, nananana nananaaa

Things are gonna fly - never say die.!!!
So things are gonna fly - never say die.!!!