Blur (band)



Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988. The group consists of singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree.


 * So what's the worth In all of this If the child in your head If the child is dead
 * "Sing"

From Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
 * Advertisements are here for rapid persuasion If you stare too long you lose your appetite
 * "Advert"


 * You need a holiday, somewhere in the sun with all the people who are waiting, there never seems to be one say something, say something else
 * "Advert"


 * I'll forget to breathe someday, I never stopped to think why
 * "Resigned"


 * Jim stops and gets out the car goes to a house in Emperor's Gate goes through the door and to his room and then he puts the TV on turns it off and makes some tea says "Modern life well it's rubbish I'm holding on for tomorrow"
 * "For Tomorrow"

From Parklife (1994)
 * Girls Who Are Boys Who Like Boys To Be Girls Who Do Boys Like They're Girls Who Do Girls Like They're Boys Always Should Be Someone You Really Love
 * "Girls and Boys"


 * End of a century, ooohhhh, it's nothing special
 * "End of a Century"


 * Confidence is a preference for the 'abitual voyeur of wha' is known as (Parklife!)
 * "Parklife"


 * Bank holiday comes six times a year, days of enjoyment to which everybody cheers! Bank holiday comes (with) a six pack of beer then it's back to work A. G. AIN
 * "Bank Holiday"


 * This is a low, but it won't hurt you when you're alone it will be there with you finding ways to stay so low
 * "This is a Low"

From The Great Escape (1995)
 * He thinks his educated airs those family shares Will protect him, that you will respect him He moves in circles of friends who just pretend that they like him He does the same to them and when you put it all together There's the model of a charmless man
 * "Charmless Man"


 * It really, really, really could happen Yes, it really, really, really could happen When the days they seem to fall through you, well just let them go
 * "The Universal"

From Blur (1997)
 * And when she lets me slip away She turns me on all my violence is gone
 * "Beetlebum"


 * In this town cellular phones are hot with teens, and in this town we all go to terminal pubs, it helps us sweat out those angry bits of life, from this town the English army grinds its teeth into glass
 * "Essex Dogs"

From 13 (1999)
 * Tender is the day, the demons go away
 * "Tender"


 * Space is the place
 * "Bugman"


 * So give me coffee and TV, history I've seen so much I'm going blind and I'm brain-dead virtually sociability, is hard enough for me take me away from this big bad world and agree to marry me we can start over again
 * "Coffee & TV"

From Think Tank (2003)
 * I ain't got nothing to be scared of
 * "Ambulance"


 * Brothers and sisters Rebuild your lives We're all drug takers Give us something tonight
 * "Brothers and Sisters"


 * Waiting, I got no town to hide in The country's got a hold of my soul TV's dead and there ain't no war in my head And you seem very beautiful to me
 * "Good Song"


 * And you've been so busy lately That you haven't found the time To open up your mind And watch the world spinning gently out of time.
 * "Out of Time"


 * Feel the sunshine on your face It's in a computer now. Gone are the future, way out in space.
 * "Out of Time"


 * Caravan is lost In the sun and the dust No-one loves you When you are lost Yeah I've been a clown Trying to pull my whole world down I thought I was strong But you are the one And when it comes, you'll feel the weight of it The weight of it And the day and you'll get away from it, Away from it
 * "Caravan"


 * Y'know yer get down now, and yer look at the wall And what does the wall say to yer? I ain't a mirror, f#$k off! It's true though innit? Think about it Don't stall man I got 'ouses ter build
 * "Me, White Noise"


 * And then you move move move move, and you push push push push, and you trip over yourself and you think to yourself, why am I here? I'm here because I got no fucking choice!
 * "Me, White Noise"