"Elegantly Wasted"
Look at all that shines
Baby's down on the world and she knows it
If your spirit's running
Why don't me make it rain like we used to
We run
We hide
We wait and we want
The good life
Aw sure
You're right
This ain't, the good life
Ah, Elegantly wasted
Ah, Elegantly wasted
Look at all the crimes
Baby's down on the world cause she owns it
Making up her life
Nothing more, nothing less makes it Voodoo
We run
We hide
We wait and we want
The good life
Aw sure
You're right
This ain't, the good life
Ah, Elegantly wasted
Ah, Elegantly wasted
We look at all that shines
Baby's down on the world and she knows it
If your spirit's fine
Why don't we make it rain like we used to
We run
We hide
We want
The good life
Aw sure
You're right
This ain't, the good life
Ah, Elegantly wasted
(you could be right, you could be certain, you could be right)
Ah, Elegantly wasted
Ah, Elegantly wasted
(you could be right, you could be certain, you could be right)
Ah, Elegantly wasted (feels like, feels like)
Elegantly wasted - you could be right
Elegantly wasted - you could be certain
Elegantly wasted - you could be right
Feels right, feels right
Taken from the "Shine Like It Does Anthology" (Andrew Farriss)
"We wrote the music together and recorded it in Dublin, Ireland. The interesting thing about the lyric is that he was very sober and focused when he wrote it. I think it was directly aimed at the media's ability to invade their privacy and sanity."
Taken from "INXS: Story to Story" by Anthony Bozza, page 252-253:
"In 1996 at England's Brit Awards (the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys), Michael presented Oasis with Best Album, which they won for (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. When the notorious brats arrived at the podium, Noel Gallagher looked at Michael and said that a has-been shouldn't be presenting awards to "gonna-bes." Months later, in Dublin, while Andrew and Michael were visiting with their friends U2 and putting the finishing touches on the album demos, Michael met Bono one night at a pub, where Oasis singer Liam Gallagher showed up. The three front men sat down, drank freely, and as the night wore on, young master Gallagher became quite intolerable. As he's wont to do, Liam grew incomprehensible, belligerent, and very, very loud. Finally Michael had had enough. "Hey, man, why don't you shut up and sit down, you're being a fucking asshole," he said. "We're just trying to have a good time, what the fuck are you doing?". Liam garbled a threat, stood up, and got in Michael's face. And Bono got between them keeping the peace as only he could, until Liam calmed down. The next day, photos of Liam and Bono nose-to-nose appeared in tabloids everywhere and mistakenly reported that the two nearly came to blows. No punches were thrown, but the incident put an end to the night.
Michael left the pub and returned to the studio, where he ran into Andrew, who was off to bed. "He said, 'Man, don't worry, you don't need to stay, I just want to rerecord some background vocals. I don't think I did a very good job of them today,'" Andrew recalls. Michael and the engineer spent the next hour or so doing just that, adding layers to the chorus of the album's title track, "Elegantly Wasted." No one realized exactly what Michael had done until six months later in Chicago, while Andrew and Michael were doing press at a radio station.
"I've been listening to this chorus over an over-great song, by the way, guys-but I've got to ask you, are you saying 'I'm better than Oasis?' I swear I hear that on the background vocals," the DJ said. Andrew's face flushed while Michael sat in silence, smirking like the cat who swallowed the canary. Andrew stuttered the best response he could: "Well, no, the chorus, as far as I know, is 'I am elegantly wasted'. I'm not sure what you're hearing but that's what we're singing...Right, Michael?".
"We wrote the music together and recorded it in Dublin, Ireland. The interesting thing about the lyric is that he was very sober and focused when he wrote it. I think it was directly aimed at the media's ability to invade their privacy and sanity."
Taken from "INXS: Story to Story" by Anthony Bozza, page 252-253:
"In 1996 at England's Brit Awards (the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys), Michael presented Oasis with Best Album, which they won for (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. When the notorious brats arrived at the podium, Noel Gallagher looked at Michael and said that a has-been shouldn't be presenting awards to "gonna-bes." Months later, in Dublin, while Andrew and Michael were visiting with their friends U2 and putting the finishing touches on the album demos, Michael met Bono one night at a pub, where Oasis singer Liam Gallagher showed up. The three front men sat down, drank freely, and as the night wore on, young master Gallagher became quite intolerable. As he's wont to do, Liam grew incomprehensible, belligerent, and very, very loud. Finally Michael had had enough. "Hey, man, why don't you shut up and sit down, you're being a fucking asshole," he said. "We're just trying to have a good time, what the fuck are you doing?". Liam garbled a threat, stood up, and got in Michael's face. And Bono got between them keeping the peace as only he could, until Liam calmed down. The next day, photos of Liam and Bono nose-to-nose appeared in tabloids everywhere and mistakenly reported that the two nearly came to blows. No punches were thrown, but the incident put an end to the night.
Michael left the pub and returned to the studio, where he ran into Andrew, who was off to bed. "He said, 'Man, don't worry, you don't need to stay, I just want to rerecord some background vocals. I don't think I did a very good job of them today,'" Andrew recalls. Michael and the engineer spent the next hour or so doing just that, adding layers to the chorus of the album's title track, "Elegantly Wasted." No one realized exactly what Michael had done until six months later in Chicago, while Andrew and Michael were doing press at a radio station.
"I've been listening to this chorus over an over-great song, by the way, guys-but I've got to ask you, are you saying 'I'm better than Oasis?' I swear I hear that on the background vocals," the DJ said. Andrew's face flushed while Michael sat in silence, smirking like the cat who swallowed the canary. Andrew stuttered the best response he could: "Well, no, the chorus, as far as I know, is 'I am elegantly wasted'. I'm not sure what you're hearing but that's what we're singing...Right, Michael?".
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