Released: May 10, 1993
Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon Damon Albarn
Producer: Stephen Street
[Sampled Intro]
Food processors are great!
[Verse 1]
It's six o'clock on the dot and I'm halfway home
I feel foul-mouthed as I stand and wait for the Underground
And a nervous disposition doesn't agree with this
I need something to remind me that there is something else
[Chorus]
You need a holiday somewhere in the sun
With all the people who are waiting
There never seems to be one
Say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
[Verse 2]
Advertisements are here for rapid persuasion
If you stare too long, you lose your appetite
And a nervous disposition doesn't agree with this
You need fast relief from aches and stomach pains
[Chorus]
I need a holiday somewhere in the sun
With all the people who are waiting
There never seems to be one
Say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
[Bridge]
One, two, three, four
Five, six, seven, eight
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
(You can have a holiday in the sun, yes
Ladies and gentlemen, one week only, on special offer)
[Chorus]
You need a holiday somewhere in the sun
With all the people who are waiting
There never seems to be one
Say something, say something else
Go on, say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
Food processors are great!
[Verse 1]
It's six o'clock on the dot and I'm halfway home
I feel foul-mouthed as I stand and wait for the Underground
And a nervous disposition doesn't agree with this
I need something to remind me that there is something else
[Chorus]
You need a holiday somewhere in the sun
With all the people who are waiting
There never seems to be one
Say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
[Verse 2]
Advertisements are here for rapid persuasion
If you stare too long, you lose your appetite
And a nervous disposition doesn't agree with this
You need fast relief from aches and stomach pains
[Chorus]
I need a holiday somewhere in the sun
With all the people who are waiting
There never seems to be one
Say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
[Bridge]
One, two, three, four
Five, six, seven, eight
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
(You can have a holiday in the sun, yes
Ladies and gentlemen, one week only, on special offer)
[Chorus]
You need a holiday somewhere in the sun
With all the people who are waiting
There never seems to be one
Say something, say something else
Go on, say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
Say something, say something else
Modern Life Is Rubbish [Special Edition]
- For Tomorrow
- Turn It Up
- Popscene
- Resigned
- Young and Lovely
- Into Another
- Commercial Break
- Bone Bag
- Let’s All Go Down the Strand
- Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Made for Two)
- I’m Fine
- Intermission
- Beachcoma
- My Ark
- Garden Central
- For Tomorrow (Visit to Primrose Hill Extended)
- Coping
- Villa Rosie
- Miss America
- Advert
- Mace
- Badgeman Brown
- Hanging Over
- Peach
- When the Cows Come Home
- Maggie May
- Es Schmecht
- Colin Zeal
- Pressure on Julian
- Star Shaped
- Blue Jeans
- Chemical World
- Sunday Sunday
- Oily Water
- Chemical World (Reworked)
- Song 2
- Girls & Boys
- Parklife
- Beetlebum
- Coffee & TV
- Tender
- Country House
- Ghost Ship
- The Universal
- Charmless Man
- My Terracotta Heart
- To the End
- No Distance Left to Run
- Sweet Song
- For Tomorrow
- Out of Time
- End of a Century
- Ice Cream Man
- Lonesome Street
- Ong Ong
- You’re So Great
- This Is a Low
- Sing
- Tracy Jacks