Songfacts®:

• This vulnerable ballad was written by Liam Gallagher. Guitarist Gem Archer told Q magazine October 2008 that, "it's really heartfelt, there's a melancholy there and that's what's Liam's showing." Liam's brother, Noel added, "deceptively brilliant, one for the ladies."
• Noel Gallagher told the NME why this ballad was placed in the middle of the record. He explained: "There's a kind of piano-y, John Lennon-y obligatory plod-away song in the middle, which Liam wrote, and that's to break up the two sides (of the album) which are pretty intense, and it's full-on from the start to finish."
• This samples an audio excerpt of a John Lennon BBC Radio interview done two days before his death. Archer told John Kennedy on XFM radio: "I think Liam was hearing it in his head before it was there, like he might have gone 'Let's have a donkey on it' or 'A brass solo'… It's from a cassette bought in Currys with a faded biro."
• Liam Gallagher told The Sun September 25, 2008: "I didn't go out to write a song like that, it just happened. I find it hard with words. If I found it easier with words I'd be huge. Bigger than WH Smith."
• Liam Gallagher told Rolling Stone that this was a song that he wrote about three years prior to Dig Out Your Soul, which he'd demoed in Oasis' studio. He added: "I got the verses and the music, the chorus took like years to write, I just couldn't get anything. One day I was f---ing about and it just happened. I thought, 'All right, that's the song done. It's f---ing done.' I was playing it and the outro goes round and round, it needs something - obviously I'm a big John Lennon fan and it's got a bit of a Lennon vibe, so I thought, 'Well, I've got to find a bit of him speaking.' So we went through all these old interviews, that's the first one I found, and it just sort of worked. It's not a tribute to John Lennon because if you sat down and tried to write a tribute to John Lennon it'd be f---ing rubbish, but it's kind of a nod."
• Liam Gallagher told Q magazine October 2011 that he thinks this was his most inspired moment to date. He said: "When I finished that, I thought, 'yeah, man, there's something in this writing business. I should keep it up and not throw in the towel.' I think that was the one. Cos a lot of my songs, verses repeat and s--t like that. And I don't have the big anthem chords. But I pulled that one off. I'm proud of that."