Blur

Released: July 2, 2012

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree

Producer: Blur

[Verse 1]
Now, are we institutionalised
By the demands of today?
In our regalia, are we okay?
Because the flash of a blade
Is one less getting paid there in the lines
And the ice and the gold
It's just a double code, it's a paradigm

[Chorus]
For every little thing that fashion gives you
Yeah

[Verse 2]
So the puritan on a Monday morning
Said, "Happy sad melody"
I'm waltzing on an amazing pulse
In a pornographic sea
Where an absent blade
Is one less in parade to throw overboard
And the ice and the gold
Is just a double code, it's a metaphor

[Chorus]
For every little thing that fashion gives you
Yeah

[Verse 3]
I'm falling into something
That play upon the metronome in your heart
It's smoke and it's mirrors
Until the auto-cue starts
Then the dry ice comes
And we start sucking our thumbs on the TV
And the joy of people
Spirited away so merrily

[Chorus]
It's part of every little thing that fashion gives you
Yeah

[Post-Chorus]
Here we go

[Outro]
La la la, la, la la la, la
La la la, la la...
(Hey puritan, hey puritan)
La la la, la, la la la, la...
(What you gonna do about it?)
La la la la la...
(It's all smoke and mirrors)
La la la, la, la la la, la...
(What you gonna do about it?)
La la la la la...
(Hey puritan, hey puritan)
La la la, la, la la la, la...
(What you gonna do about it?)
La la la la la...
La la la, la, la la la, la
(What you gonna do about it?)
La la la la la...
La la la, la, la la la, la...

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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