Released: April 7, 1997

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree

Producer: Blur

Now I fall to the ground
I can't get up, well never mind
I know you'll pull me up by my bones
And say I'm sand to polish stones

Well today is gone and it won't be long
Before we fall asleep and forget what we've done
We won't get up cos today is fucked
We're alone

Now, you bite my tongue
And when the alcohol's done
I won't feel a thing
So you don't carry on

Today is gone and it won't be long
Before we fall asleep and forget what we've done
We won't get up cos today is fucked
We're alone

It's numb
It's numb
It's numb

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.