Blur

Released: July 29, 1991

Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon Damon Albarn

Producer: Blur

[Verse 1]
Don't look at me as though I'm not here
Your only regret, what you don't see
You know more than I, so think for me
But think why you're not me

[Chorus]
Ah, ah, ah, ah

[Verse 2]
No substitute for the girl of dreams
She never knew who you were
Half your life has been explained
You want the other half again

[Chorus]
Ah, ah, ah, ah

[Verse 3]
Don't look at me as though I'm not here
Your only regret, what you don't see
Half my life has been explained

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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