Blur

Released: February 12, 1996

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Dave Rowntree Alex James

Producer: Blur John Smith

[Verse 1]
All good people, your time will come
Work forever and still not be done
Close your tired eyes, no one knows you've gone
It's not forever but today you've become

[Chorus]
The man who left himself

[Verse 2]
You don't belong here, your heart beats too fast
Feel the missed beat, it stops and it starts
Don't be frightened, these things never last
Maybe tomorrow your time will have passed

[Chorus]
It's the man who left himself
The man who left himself

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.

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Stereotypes [Single]

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Stereotypes [Single] (1996)
The Great Escape [Special Edition] (2012)

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