Blur

Released: February 10, 1997

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Dave Rowntree Alex James

Producer: Stephen Street

[Verse 1]
Yeah, I found nowhere
It got to know me
Let me sleep all day
Spent the money
I haven't felt my legs
Since the summer
And I don't call my friends
Forgot their numbers

[Chorus]
V.I.P 223
I had my chances, they had me
Now I stay up nights, watch TV
I'm country sad
I'm a ballad man

[Verse 2]
I'm on the comeback road
Yeah, I'm a blizzard
And in my motor home
Sweat on my pillow, all night

[Chorus]
V.I.P 223
I had my chances, they had me
Now I stay up nights, watch TV
I'm country sad
I'm a ballad man

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
V.I.P 223
I had my chances, they had me
Now I stay up nights, watch TV
I'm country sad
I'm a ballad man

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.

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