Blur

Released: May 5, 2003

Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Graham Coxon Alex James Damon Albarn

Producer: Blur Ben Hillier

[Verse 1]
This is a ballad for the good times
So put a battery in your leg
Put a rock beat over anything
Get it stuck there in your head
You can be with me

[Verse 2]
I got nothing to rely on
I've broken every bone
Everybody's stopped believing
But you know you're not alone
You can be with me

[Verse 3]
This is a ballad for the good times
And all the dignity we had
Don't get het up on the evil things
You ain't coming back
You can be with me
If you want to be
You can be with me

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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Think Tank (2003)
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Think Tank [Special Edition] (2012)

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