A close reading
Wonderwall
by Oasis(What's The Story) Morning Glory (1995)
283 words · 83 distinct · 31 lines · 4:19
The lead
×3
one line comes back
“i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now”
The text
31 lines
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you
And by now, you should've somehow realised what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now
And 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
Read from the stored text. Another transcription would change the count a little; the shape would hold.
I. The hook
One line keeps coming back.
“i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now”
times, word for word
It lands at lines 3, 6 and 16. 39% of the lines repeat one already sung, and 48% belong to lines sung three times or more.
The title is sung 3 times.
II. The clock
4:19 of song, 283 words.
- Words a minute
- 66
- First word
- 0:23
- Longest silence
- 12 s
- from 1:43
- Busiest 15 seconds
- 43
- words
III. The vocabulary
Most-used words
20 words- 01you're10
- 02gonna9
- 03saves9
- 04all8
- 05maybe6
- 06now5
- 07don't5
- 08said5
- 09way4
- 10there4
- 11believe3
- 12anybody3
- 13feels3
- 14about3
- 15after3
- 16wonderwall3
- 17today2
- 18day2
- 19throw2
- 20back2
Stopwords set aside. The bar beneath each word is its share of the most-used.
Variety
83 distinct words in 283
Used only once30 words
Longest wordwonderwall
Average word3.85 letters
IV. In the catalogue
The 23rd longest of 140 songs Oasis has recorded.
Every mark is one of Oasis’s 140 songs, placed by its figure. The rule is the catalogue’s median; the oxblood mark is this song.
Read the whole catalogue →Words · 28323rd longest of 140