Refugee Blues first of ten poems grouped together in "Ten Songs", which also includes the above-mentioned "Calypso". Refugee Blues "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some
Stop the Clocks (song) said he thought putting bonus tracks on a 'best-of' album would take the focus away on what was supposed to be a retrospective collection. On BBC Radio 1 on 1 December 2006, Noel Gallagher said of "Stop the Clocks": "Everybody has got different favourite versions - and until we can decide on which one, then it shall remain in the vault. Hopefully we will get around to it next time." He also confirmed that the words on the cover of the "Stop the Clocks" album are the lyrics to the song. In late 2006 interviews to promote the "Stop the