Released: January 1, 1999

Songwriter: Alex James

Producer: Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon Damon Albarn Blur

Phoebe, lo, Elara, Leda, Callisto, Sinope
1980 S 2 7, Janus, Dione, Portia, so many moons
Quiet in the sky at night
Hot in the milky way
Outside in

10 billion light years wide
And time on either side
And inside, outside, inside, (27, 10), outside in

Far out, far out

Vega, Capella, Hader, Rigel (Sun, sun!)
And Barnard‘s Star
Antares, (Sun, sun!) Aldebaran, Altair
Wolf 359, Betelgeuse

Sun, sun, sun!

Quiet in the sky at night
Hot in the milky way
Outside in 10 billion light years wide
And time on either side
And I got inside, outside, (27, 10) inside, outside in

Far out, far out

Always, always out there
Always, always, always out there
Always

| spy in the night sky, don’t l
| spy in the night sky, don’t l
| spy in the night sky, don‘t l
I spy in the night sky, don‘t l

Sun, sun, sun!

Quiet in the sky at night
Quick in the milky way
Outside in 10 billion light years wide
And time on either side
And inside, outside, inside, (27, 10), outside in

Far out, far out

10 billion light years wide
And time on either side
And inside, outside, inside, (27, 10), outside in

Far out, far out

Blur

British rock group Blur formed in 1988 and began life as a fairly unsuccessful shoegaze/madchester outfit, but the band quickly developed into becoming one of the leaders of the massive 1990s Britpop scene.

Their rivalry with contemporaries Oasis culminated in one of the most famous chart battles in British history – one which Blur won when “Country House” outsold Oasis’s “Roll With It” by 50,000 copies, giving Blur their first #1 single in the process.

Following this, the group embarked on a new musical direction, deliberately heading away from their trademark Britpop sound and instead taking influences from American alternative rock, a sound which earned them new fans in the US and gave them their second UK #1: “Beetlebum” in 1997.