Bag It Up Lyrics
Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up
Pour yourself another cup of Lady Grey
Take my hand in the meantime when you've had enough
You'll find me on the end of the runway, babe
[Verse 2]
Tell the world that you love them in a melody
Send my old piano and a telegram
Got to get me a doctor with a remedy
I'm gonna take a walk with a Monkey Man
[Pre-Chorus]
Someone tell me I'm dreaming
The freaks are rising up through the floor
Everything I believe in
Is telling me that I want more, more, more
[Chorus 1]
Lay your love on the fire when you come on in
I got my heebee jeebees hidden in a bag
Tell me what you desire and we'll bag it up
High
[Pre-Chorus]
Someone tell me I'm dreaming
The freaks are rising up through the floor
Everything I believe in
Is telling me that I want more, more, more
Lay your love on the fire when you come on in
I got my heebee jeebees hidden in a bag
Tell me what you desire and we'll bag it up
High
[Chorus 2]
Shine a light on the choir if you come on in
I got my heebee jeebees hidden in a bag
Tell me what you desire and we'll bag it up
High
About
“Bag It Up” is a song about doing drugs as a kid, set to a heavy riff and thumping drums.
After titling it “Bag It Up”, Gallagher was unaware that Geri Halliwell had recorded a song of the same title. He told Mojo magazine August 2008: “When I came home with the finished thing, I stuck it on and the missus goes, ‘Bag It Up? Isn’t that a song by Geri Halliwell?’ I’m straight on the internet and sure enough. I was like, ‘You’ve ruined my entire year.’”
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Noel Gallagher told Q magazine October 2008:
‘Bag It Up’ is about the time I used to do psychedelic drugs. You always remember your acid trips and mushrooms and glue sniffing when you were a kid. It was kind of remembering all the old acid trips we used to have on the local golf course. That period of my life from 14-17.
Noel Gallagher described the song to Q magazine:
Slow pounding acid rock, The Pretty Things vs The Pink Floyd on glue.
According to Noel Gallagher to Spin in 2008:
I spend a lot of time with Serge Pizzorno from Kasabian getting fucking pissed, and he sent me a CD of stuff he was listening to. There was a track by the Pretty Things called “Baron Saturday.” I became obsessed by that pounding rhythm, and I decided to write about acid trips I used to have. Running around being a mad cunt on magic mushrooms was my inspiration for them lyrics.
- 1.Bag It Up
- 2.The Turning
- 7.Falling Down
- 11.Soldier On
