"My name is disturbance", he shouts.

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NOEL: Liam’s gotten all religious. It’s quite disturbing. He thinks he’s Abel for some weird reason. He wrote a new song called “Guess God Thinks I’m Abel.” I thought it was A-b-l-e, but when he wrote it down, it was “Abel.” And I thought, “Right, so you think you’re Abel. That must make me Cain. Doesn’t Cain kill Abel?” But then the first line of that song is “You could be my lover.” I’m not too sure about that. That’s illegal, innit? It’s kind of illegal for two brothers to make love. It’s certainly frowned upon.

— June 2005 Spin

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That’s Abel as in Cain and Abel?

Liam: Well it’s meant to be. I just thought I’d do it to mess with people’s heads and that. As well as my own.

But the other fella was Cain. Is that Noel?

Liam: That’s right yeah. Apparently so.

But Cain killed Abel.

Liam: Yeah.

— 20/05/2005 The Late Late Show

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GGTIA, the best of Liam’s new songs, is a meditation of sorts on this brotherly bond.

“It’s biblical innit,” explains Liam. “Cain and Abel… It’s me and our kid. Or me and you. Two people who are the opposite, who become one.”

Are you holding an olive branch out to Noel?

Liam: It’s nice to put a band aid on it for a bit, know what I mean? I love him, I adore him, more than anyone else in the fuckin' whole wide world. But we also don’t speaek that much. We don’t have to speak. But that song is basically for him. It’s like, Shut the fuck up. Give respect and you’ll get respect back. Life, brothers and sisters, that’s what we all want isn’t it, respect?”

Or love…

Liam: But love is the same kind of thing. If you love someone you respect someone, you respect someone, you love someone. It all comes in the same… sandwich.”

He says GGTIA is about you and him…

Noel: Oh is it? Is that what he said? For 6 months, I thought that song was GGTI A-b-l-e. I’m very fucking confused as to what it means, but if he’s writing songs about me then great. It’s fucking better than writing songs about the missus.

— June 2005 Mojo

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Then a couple of months ago, Noel heard Liam tell a foreign journalist that his song was about the Biblical parable of ill-starred brothers Cain and Abel.

“Eh?” said Noel, his face screwing into a familiar mask of bewildered incomprehension. “Yeah,” said Liam, leaning over to his elder brother and muttering that it was actually called Guess God Thinks I’m Abel.

Noel to Liam [bushy eyebrow a-waggling]: “Doesn’t Cain kill Abel in the end?”

Liam to Noel [grunting]: “Yeah.”

Noel to Liam [getting more confused]: “Isn’t the first line of your song, “I could be your lover…”’

Liam to Noel [blithely unconcerned]: “Yeah.”

Noel to me: “Now, if that’s not banned in this country, it’s certainly frowned upon. Brother-on-brother sex: it’s not right is it? So I’m kinda looking at Liam a bit differently lately. Strange kid…”

Would Noel say his relationship with Liam was now good?

“Well, to me he seems to have matured. And I’ve got a lot more respect for him – he doesn’t contribute in terms of working man hours. But gone are the days of their being any more fillers on the albums, “cause the three songs that he gives are the best songs. His three best songs are better than my three fillers. And Andy’s two best songs are better than…”

Noel Gallagher stops, as if that might be praise too far. But yes, creatively, within themselves, Oasis are motoring along quite nicely. “So I can forgive Liam freak-outs about music; I can rise above those arguments. I didn’t really respect Liam before. He was just some buffoon who sings my songs.”

Is he jealous of you?

“You’d have to ask him.”

Are you jealous of him?

Noel Gallagher gives an uncharacteristic pause and thinks. “Jealous of his hairdo,” he decides. “Liam’s always had good hair.”

— 26/06/2005 Sunday Herald

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Yes, wildly unpredictable singer Liam Gallagher has written three songs on the Manchester band's new album, Don't Believe The Truth, including one about his relationship with older brother and Oasis guitarist Noel called Guess God Thinks I'm Abel.

But Noel, who is also sharing songwriting duties this time with rhythm guitarist Gem and bassist Andy Bell, says the first time he heard Abel, just one thing went through his head.

"Who the fook is Mabel?" joked Noel, 38, seated opposite Gem in a Toronto hotel boardroom yesterday prior to their sold-out show tonight at the Molson Amphitheatre. "God thinks that Liam is a woman called Mabel."

Seriously, Noel said he would love to perform the song live, but rehearsals of it haven't gone well.

"We tried to rehearse it with Liam and it turned into an Abbot and Costello sketch," said Noel. "It was very funny. We had to abandon it. We'd rehearsed it a couple of times at the sound check, when he wasn't there and it sounded fooking amazing. And then he turns up drunk saying, 'You're playing it too slow, because I'm slurring me words.' It didn't register in his head that he'd been up all night the night before, drinking lager."

Noel sums up the relationship with his brother this way: "You can pick your singers. And you can pick your nose. But you can't pick your singer's nose."

— 17/06/2005 Toronto Sun

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And Guess God Thinks I'm Abel is your love letter to Our Kid? Lines like: "You could be my best friend/ Stay up all night long/ You could be my railroad/ We go on and on"...?

Liam: He's alright.

Come on...

Liam: There's no, "come on." I fucking hate people who go, "come on." I wish I could explain myself better. He doesn't come into my thoughts very much. He'll come into my mind for about a minute and I'll think, "Uggghhh" and think about summat else.

You love him.

Liam: I adore him.

— August 2005 Q

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interesting 🧐

So imagine this. You're at a small gig venue to listen to your brother perform. Everyone there is local and knows you two as these brothers who regularly get drunk and take drugs and don't really have a job. Everyone knows that he wants to impress you specifically. Everyone there is probably a friend or acquaintance and watching you.

He's not bad and you secretly think that he's cool and good-looking and stylish. But you're a bit of a cunt and won't let him know. So he's there on the stage and singing to you like "this one's for you Noely!" and everyone knows it. Then he starts with "Take me when I'm young and true, was it me or was it you" and you're like oh shit but he just continues "Take me when I'm not so strong, why has it taken you so long?". Well, it won't get worse than this you think only to hear him sing "Take me if you think I'm sweet, though my life feels incomplete. Take me when I wish to live, for I still have this to give". There's not enough alcohol to drown out this. Well, at least now it can't get worse but he's already started on "Take me ‘cause I’m feeling old, all my life I’ve been so cold" and you think it's finally over, we're back on normal terrain only for him to agonizedly belt out "Take me when I start to cry. Take me, take me don't ask why". And you just have to stand there like nothing's wrong.

Afterwards you say "Your music's shite but I'll join and write the lyrics. Actually I already have a tune for us". And then you record a song that basically says you're trying to hide your feelings but I know and we gotta lock the doors because nobody can find out. Now get down on the floor. You call it "Lock all the doors", a very appropriate and normal title, it's in the text. But that's not good enough you say. One title is not enough, we need a second one you say. And then you name it "Sister Lover". You don't have a sister but you insinuate in interviews that your brother is girly. It's jail for you.

And Bonehead, Guigsy and Tony are just there, experiencing this all in real time and thankfully for you not calling the police.

SAM REID as Lestat de Lioncourt / Lelio

It's all a misunderstanding, my love. I wished to serve the god of the dark wood like the rest. Forgive me. My hands are much older than the rest of me. Forgive me.

"I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise."

Lover Boy Louis