Released: October 16, 2000

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree

Producer: Chris Potter

[Verse]
Put away my black book
Put it on the fire
Getting out the side door
You are my one desire
Baby when you hold me
I see you're everything
Baby when you touch me
I need nothing no more
Put away my black book
Put in on the fire
Don't give up on me Lord
Take my spirit higher
Nothing can behold me
Don't put me on the fire
Baby when you hold me
I will see no fear
Baby when you touch me
You see it in my eyes
Put away my black book
Put it on the fire
I've made up my mind
I got nothing to hide
I've made up my mind
I got nothing to hide

[Outro]
Give me my soul[x7]
Give you my soul
Give me my soul
Give you my soul[x10]
Give you
Give you my soul[x4]

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.