Released: September 11, 1995

Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James

Producer: Stephen Street

[Verse 1]
Ernold Same awoke from the same dream
In the same bed at the same time
Looked in the same mirror, made the same frown
And felt the same way as he did every day

[Verse 2]
Then Ernold Same caught the same train
At the same station, sat in the same seat
With the same nasty stain
Next to same old what's-his-name
On his way to the same place with the same name
To do the same thing again and again and again
Poor old Ernold Same

[Chorus]
Oh Ernold Same
His world stays the same
Today will always be tomorrow
Poor old Ernold Same
He's getting that feeling once again
Nothing will change tomorrow

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.