Blur

Released: April 27, 2015

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon

Producer: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Stephen Street

[Verse 1]
Here comes the ice cream man, parked at the end of the road
With a swish of his magic whip, all the people in the party froze
Screwball, chocolate chip, umbrella in his white glove hand
Shade from the sun was his intention

[Verse 2]
Here comes the ice cream man, bouncing up the hill
With a wick, the pumpkin lit, Happy Valley cones he fills for
All the lantern men, marching down till dawn
Morning come, we fall over

[Chorus]
Something new
Something you
Something new

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Here comes the ice cream man, parked at the end of the road
With a swish of his magic whip, all the people in the party froze
I was only twenty-one when I watched it on TV
I was racing in my heart back then

[Chorus]
Something new (Oh, oh-oh, oh)
Something new
Something new (Oh, oh-oh, oh)
Something new (Something you do nothing about)
Something new (Oh, oh-oh, oh)
Something new
(Here comes the ice cream man, out with his magic whip)
Something new
(Always sold out by nine, so you better come and get it quick)
Something new (Oh, oh-oh, oh)
Something new

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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