Blur

Released: April 27, 2015

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Alex James Dave Rowntree Graham Coxon

Producer: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Stephen Street

[Verse 1: Damon Albarn]
Thought I was a spaceman digging out my heart
In some distant sand dunes in a car park
'Cause the desert had encroached upon the places where we lived
People like me fight to keep the demons in
But we never succeeded, we never succeeded
In fact, we failed

[Verse 2: Damon Albarn]
Thought I was a spaceman digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune in a car park
By the empty harbour where the junk boat phantoms float
The fight for Happy Valley
Sadly, the line broke

[Verse 3: Damon Albarn]
Thought I found my black box washed up on the shore
On outlying islands past the land fall
Thought I'd thought I'd found it but that was not true at all
I'd walked into a bar, raised hell

[Verse 4: Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon]
Cut the chasm out me, always and always the same
Put the ghost in writing and let it be (You again)
Thought I was a spaceman digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune in Hyde Park

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5: Graham Coxon]
Thought I was a spaceman digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune, you again
Thought I was a spaceman digging out my heart
In some distant sand dune, you again, you again, you again

[Instrumental Outro]

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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