Released: March 15, 1999

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Dave Rowntree Graham Coxon Alex James

Producer: William Orbit

[Chorus]
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, ooh
Battle, battle, battle, ooh
Battle someone, ooh

[Verse 1]
Completion search
Here, I love the bow
See me walk on down to
Adorn myself, it's a new song glory
'Cause see me, what do you think of now?

[Chorus]
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, ooh
Battle, battle, battle, ooh
Battle someone, ooh

[Verse 2]
Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me, oh it turns you on
All my gawe
It's the end of yours
See me, take your last one now

[Chorus]
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, ooh
Battle, battle, battle, ooh
Battle someone, ooh

[Instrumental]
Ooh, ooh..
Ooh, ooh..
Ooh
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, ooh
Battle, battle, battle, ooh
Battle someone, ooh
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, ooh
Battle, battle, battle, ooh
Battle someone, ooh

[Outro]
Keep sounds
Keep love about
See me overcome

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.