Blur - Country House

So the story begins

City dweller, successful fella

Thought to himself, "Oops, I've got a lot of money" (Lot of money)

Caught in a rat race, terminally

I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not in it

I'm paying the price of living life at the limit (To the limit)

Caught up in the century's anxiety

Yes, it preys on him (Preys on him)

He's getting thin (Getting thin)

Try the simple life

He lives in a house

A very big house in the country

Watching afternoon repeats

And the food he eats in the country

He takes all manner of pills

And piles up analyst bills in the country

Oh, it's like an animal farm

That's the rural charm in the country

He's got morning glory and life's a different story

Everything's going Jackanory (Jackanory)

Touched with his own mortality

He's reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac

It's a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland

(Close your eyes, try it)

Oh, it's a century's remedy

For the faint at heart (Faint at heart)

A new start (New start)

Try the simple life

He lives in a house

A very big house in the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)

He's got a fog in his chest

So he needs a lot of rest in the country

He doesn't drink, smoke, laugh

Takes herbal baths in the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)

But you'll come to no harm

On the animal farm in the country

In the country, in the country, in the country

Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why

Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why

Oh, he lives in a house

A very big house in the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)

Watching afternoon repeats

And the food he eats in the country

He takes all manner of pills

And piles up analyst bills in the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)

Oh, it's like an animal farm

That's the rural charm in the country

Oh, he lives in a house

A very big house in the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)

He's got a fog in his chest

So he needs a lot of rest in the country

He doesn't drink, smoke, laugh

Takes herbal baths in the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)

But you'll come to no harm

On the animal farm in the country

Who's that? La-la

I wanna be, I wanna be

Blur - Best Days

Door bells say goodbye to the last train
Over the river they all go again
Out into leafy nowhere hope someone's waiting out there for them
Cabbie has his mind on a fare to the sun
He works nights but it's not much fun
Picks up the london yo-yos
All on their own down soho
Take me home

Other people wouldn't like to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
Other people turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives

Trellick tower's been calling
I know she'll leave me in the morning

In hotel cells listening to dull tones
Remote controls and cable moans
In his drink he's been talking
Gets disconnected sleepwalking back home

Other people wouldn't like to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Other people turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives, of our lives

Other people wouldn't like to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Other people turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Other people break into a cold sweat
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
And other people turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives, of our lives

Blur - The Universal

This is the next century
The Universal is free
You can find it anywhere
Yes, the future has been sold
Every night we are gone
And to karaoke songs
We like to sing along
Although the words are wrong

It really, really, really could happen
Yes, it really, really, really could happen
When the days seem to fall straight through you
Just let them go

No one here is alone
Satellites in every home
The Universal is here
Here for everyone
Every paper that you read
Says tomorrow is your lucky day
Well, here's your lucky day

It really, really, really could happen
Yes, it really, really, really could happen
When the days seem to fall straight through you
Just let them go

Blur - Charmless Man

I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me down and so began
The story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from his beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way

He went...
Na na na na na na na na na naaa

He thinks his educated airs
Those family shares will protect him
That we 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

Na na na na na na na na na naaa

He knows the swingers and their cavalry
Says he can get in anywhere for free
I began to go a little cross eyed
And from this charmless man I just had to hide

Na na na na na na na na na naaa

He talks at speed
He gets nose bleeds
He doesn't see his days
Are tumbling down upon him
And yet tries so hard to please
He's just so keen for you to listen
But no one is listening
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

Do anything you if you can

He thinks his educated airs
Those family shares will protect him
That we will respect him
And yet tries so hard to please
He's just so keen for you to listen
But no one is listening
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

Na na na na na na na na na naaa