Released: April 15, 1991

Songwriter: Alex James Dave Rowntree Damon Albarn Graham Coxon

Producer: Stephen Street Ben Chapman

[Verse 1]
You're taking the fun out of everything
You're making me run when I don't want to think
You're taking the fun out of everything
I don't want to think at all

[Chorus]
There's no other way, there's no other way
All that you can do is watch them play

[Verse 2]
You've taken the fun out of everything
You're making it clear when I don't want to think
You're taking me up when I don't want to go up anymore
I'm just watching it all

[Chorus]
There's no other way, there's no other way
All that you can do is watch them play
There's no other way, there's no other way
All that you can do is watch them play

[Bridge]
I'll watch you play
I'll watch you play

[Chorus]
There's no other way, there's no other way
All that you can do is watch them play
There's no other way, there's no other way
All that you can do is watch them play

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.