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Blur - The Best of Blur

Blur: The Best Of

The ones we like best - the big pop anthems, the soundtrack to our very own twin summers of love - are monuments to the power of pop.

There's a story going round that Blur had so much trouble agreeing on the line-up of this album that eventually the record company lost patience and left it up to public research groups. Which is, of course, just how it should be. After all, in the recent past, Blur have not exactly kept shtoom about the fact that they don't want these songs any more. In fact, they even paid them the...

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  • Oct 26, 2000

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Blur - The Best of Blur Lyrics

Blur - Song 2 Lyrics

I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is, no

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Blur - Parklife Lyrics

Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur
Of what is known as
(Parklife)
And morning soup can be avoided

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Blur - End Of A Century Lyrics

She says, "There's ants in the carpet"
The dirty little monsters, eating all the morsels
Just pickin' up the rubbish
Give her effervescence, she needs a little sparkle

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Blur - This Is A Low Lyrics

And into the sea
Goes pretty England and me
Around the Bay of Biscay
And back for tea

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Blur - To The End Lyrics

All those dirty words
They make us look so dumb
Been drinking far too much
And neither of us mean what we say

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Blur - Tender Lyrics

Tender is the night
Lying by your side
Tender is the touch
Of someone that you love too much

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Blur - No Distance Left To Run Lyrics

It's over, you don't need to tell me
Hope you're with someone who makes you
Feel safe when you're sleeping tonight
I won't kill myself trying to stay in your life

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Blur - Girls And Boys Lyrics

Street's like a jungle
So call the police
Following the herd
Down to Greece, on holiday

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Blur - On Your Own Lyrics

Holy man tiptoed his way across the Ganges
The sound of magic, music in his ears
Videoed by a bus load of tourists
Shiny shell suits on and drinking lemonade

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Blur - Beetlebum Lyrics

Beetlebum, what you've done, she's a gun
Now what you've done, beetlebum
Get nothing done, you beetlebum
Just get numb, now what you've done, beetlebum

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Blur - For Tomorrow Lyrics

He's a twentieth century boy
With his hands on the rails
Trying not to be sick again
And holding on for tomorrow

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Blur - There's No Other Way Lyrics

You're taking the fun out of everything
And making me run when I don't want to think
You're taking the fun out of everything
I don't want to think at all

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Blur - She's So High Lyrics

I see her face everyday
I see her face, it doesn't help me
I see her face everyday
I see her face, it doesn't help me

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Blur - Music Is My Radar Lyrics

You really got me seeing you
Really got me done y'all
Music is my radar
Really topped me join y'all

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