Released: April 19, 1993

Songwriter: Alex James Dave Rowntree Damon Albarn Graham Coxon

Producer: Blur

[Verse 1]
Chemical eats
Best part of the peach
You're always the way you are
What of that going to close you in

[Chorus]
You've got a gaping hole in your head
I'd let the birds nest there instead
Ah-ha, ah-ha
Ah-ha, ah-ha

[Verse 2]
A gun in your pocket
And hair in a locket
Around your neck from the girl you once loved
Where is she now? You've gone crazy

[Chorus]
You've got a gaping hole in your head
I'd let the birds nest there instead
Ah-ha, ah-ha
Ah-ha, ah-ha

[Instrumental break]

[Chorus]
You've got a gaping hole in your head
I'd let the birds nest there instead
Ah-ha, ah-ha
Ah-ha, ah-ha

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.