Released: August 26, 1991

Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon Damon Albarn

Producer: Stephen Street

[Verse 1]
It's up to you
You know it is
I can't convince you
All you have to do is slow down
I've always said, "It will never change."
All you have to do
Just you be you
I think that's all I want to say

[Verse 2]
And all the things I've ever told you
I didn't mean at all
I didn't mean at all
I'd forget you
So if you come here
If you come here
All you have to do
Just you be you
I think that's all I want to say to you

[Verse 3]
And all those things that I told you
I didn't mean at all
I didn't mean at all
I'd forget you
So if you come here
If you come here
All you have to do
Just you be you
I think that's all I need to say to you

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.