Dear Katy;
People often wonder why I love Oasis this much. The last lines of the book I just finished, written by Paolo Hewitt, not only gave me chills and tears, but it made me feel familiar to him, and although he speaks of an Irish little girl, I felt that girl was me.
” ‘This is called “Masterplan”,’ Noel announces, and he strums a chord that then rises high above the crowd and floats across Manchester, the town that helped shape him, the town he had to leave.
As Noel sings ‘Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say And cast your words’, the crowd continues its journey, over Liverpool where they first recorded, and then high above the Irish sea, floating softly over the waves until Ireland is beneath.
It travels South, heading towards a little girl who sits by a river in county Mayo gazing into the water, searching for signs of her future. The chord reaches her and momentarily hangs above her head before descending and enveloping her body. The little girl gives a slight shiver and then looks up to the sky, knowing she had been touched.
Then she stands and walks away, whistling her sing into the cool evening air, heading towards a future that nobody ever knows. “
This is why.
