Blur

Released: April 2, 2015

Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Alex James Graham Coxon Damon Albarn

Producer: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Stephen Street

[Verse 1: Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon]
What do you got?
Mass produced in somewhere hot
You'll have to go on the Underground
To get things done here
(And then you have to see)
If you need a yellow duck, service done
This is a place to come to, or, well, it was
Another hot spot, oh, oh
Crossing on the guillotine

[Chorus: Damon Albarn]
And if you have nobody left to rely on
I'll hold you in my arms and let you drift
It's got to be that time again
And June, June will be over soon again

[Verse 2: Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon]
So get yourself up, get a pass glitch on your way
It's nothing to be ashamed of
Taking off again
The 5:14 to East Grinstead
(You've sent me off to see)
And we go up, up, up, up, up
Coursing on our greatest night
And talking types will let us down again
Talk, talk on your arse all night

[Verse 3: Graham Coxon]
You wanna be there
Step inside the tarmac ride
To the land that crime forgot
Oh, just don’t go there
Cracks inside the tarmac ride
To the land that crime forgot, oh no

[Chorus: Damon Albarn]
And if you have nobody left to rely on
I'll hold you in my arms and let you drift

[Refrain: Damon Albarn]
Going down to Lonesome Street
Going down to Lonesome Street
Lonesome Street
Going down to Lonesome Street
Lonesome Street
Lonesome Street
Going down to Lonesome Street

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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