b-sides and rare tracks.

I'm afraid most of these have been nicked from "Blurb", the Blur Fan Club mailing-list and "The OLGA". So thank-you!

Alex's song.
All your life.
A song.
Badgeman Brown.
Day upon day.
Down.
Dying isn't easy. (courtesy of Ian May)
Explain.
Fried. (courtesy of Adam Benzine)
Hanging over.
I got law (demo). (courtesy of Adam Benzine)
I love her.
I'm all over.
Inertia.
Luminous.
Mace.
Mr Briggs.
My ark. (courtesy of Adam Benzine)
Never Clever.
No monsters in me.
Peach.
People in Europe.
Popscene.
Song 2 (original lyrics).
Swallows in the heatwave.
The man who left himself.
To the end (La comédie).
Ultranol.
Uncle Love.
Young and lovely.

Can't find what you're looking for? Chemical World also has lyrics to b-sides and miscellaneous tracks.

Alex's song

Picked up the girl
And he sailed around the world
Why not?
What else have you got?
If you're not
Anyone that I like
Love Will give me the moon
Whoops
And beyond these voices
And danced on the groove
In a dream forever
Starts when you wake up
Starts when you wake up

Picked up the girl
And he sailed around the world
What?
Oh yeah sorry
Around the world
Why not?
What else has he got?
I don't know
And I know
I don't know
Love will give me the moon
Oh dear
And beyond these voices
And danced on the groove
In a dream forever
Starts when you wake up
Starts when you wake up

All your life

Put a new T-shirt on, wash my face in beer
Fall through the crowd and disappear
In the teenage magazines and shopping malls
Walk through the wildlife for miles and miles
Hold my breath and count a hundred and ten
And back up the hill to start again

Watching spiders on the bedroom ceiling
They got big plans so they're not breathing
Feel the frisson of tomorrow today
I could get up but it won't go away
Do nothing to impress my friends
Just rub my eyes for hours on end
Oh England, my love, you lost me, made me look a fool

I need someone to tell me everything'll be alright
I need someone who'll hold me when the day turns to night
I need someone who loves me more than you do
Oh we say that's not true
And you and me in line as double bill
Surrogate heroes on TV and films

I've never met anyone like you
I've never done the things you like to do

A song

When he speaks to her
Without looking at her
You sing the driest of words
With his mind on what's on the telly
The rumours pass on
As he staggers through the air
Knowing he won't get home
To the world of people in cars alone

Badgeman Brown

This is the voice of someone calling from a lonely hill
To the hard of hearing, for those who never will
A long-legged someone sleep-walking away from home
Like a vacant dreamer walking alone, alone

Days will turn in turn / into ?
Which is one which we learn / lack ?
As average believers in the book of Badgeman Brown

They're dropping like flies in a suburban house
From a lack of anything, anything to keep them penned in
And the town keeps screaming from a lonely hill
An avalanche of people, those who never will

Repeat chorus

This is the voice of someone calling from a lonely hill
To the hard of hearing, all those who never will

Repeat chorus

Day upon day

 Waiting on this empty day
It's just the same as any day
And although I've got nothing to say
I'm going to say it anyway

Day, day upon day, day upon day, day upon day x 2

Everybody's here with me
We're in the smallest rooms you see
And although we've got nothing to do
We're going to doo wah doo wah doo

Down

 You and me, we've tried to change
We've tried so hard, it's all the same
I'm just waiting for it to begin again
Ah Oh

I'm forgetting who I am
That makes me wonder why I am
Trying so hard to find sense
Where there's none at all
Ah Oh
Down, down, down

Staring at the ground all day
If you stare too long you'll get burned away
Now there's nothing left of me so have it all
Ah Oh

Forgetting's a game I play
My past has just faded away
Now I can tell you everything there is to know about me
Ah Oh
Down, down, down

Dying isn't easy

 (by Damon Albarn, from the soundtrack to "Ordinary decent criminal")

This isn't the first time
I've left it too late
To get on top
I made that mistake
To be with someone
Never find what you need
We dont bail out
And I can't sleep.

You left me
Just when I needed you
You set me back
Just when I thought I got back
(Whistle, Do do do's, La la la's)
Just when I thought I got back.

This is the last time
I make this mistake
Can't see the stars
Yeah it's too late
To be with someone
Never find what you need
We dont bail out
Yeah I can't sleep.

Explain

It's pointless to explain why
There's nothing I can say
My words would all be meaningless
Anyway

It seems I can't be trusted
And I don't disagree
What made you think I ever really
Wanted to be?

I can't explain why
And I don't know when
I'm ever going to want to
See her again

Son don't ask why I came here
There's nothing I can say
I don't think I'll be staying very long
Anyway

I'm trying to find out why
I came here at all
I don't think it was to see you
After all

Fried

Oh you are so very strange
Sometimes I think you've gone insane
Is it hard to remain sane
In this giddy world
Couldn't you give it a go
We're all trying do hard you know
Couldn't you put in a goal
Just for me

Did I say I want to know
I'm talking about a goal
Would you please leave me alone
Can't you see I want to be on my own (x2)

Oh I would like to get in your head
Just to see if you are dead,
Oh I'd like to get into that, pretty head
And it would amuse me just to see
How you feel about me
How you feel about always getting fried

Oh I'm getting to fry
We're all getting fried!
I still wanna be on my own!

Hanging over

 I'm alive, I can breathe in air
I can hurt you, I can pull out hair
Somersault into your room
You can't catch me
I'm carried away
I woke up to another late dawn
I woke up with nothing on my mind
Half-way down the stairs
I feel a pain in my chest
I shouldn't have ever got out of bed

Then everything shattered just at the point that it mattered
Yes, then everything shattered just at the point that it mattered
Ah ah

I'm alive, I can breathe in air
I can hurt you, I can pull out hair
Anything in your mind I'll put it in mine
You can't touch me
I'm carried away
I woke up, I wake up every day
I have nothing, there's nothing to say
Half-way down the stairs
I feel a pain in my chest
I shouldn't have ever got out of bed

Repeat chorus

I'm alive, I can breathe in air
I can hurt you, I can pull out hair
Half-way down the stairs
I feel a pain in my chest
I shouldn't have ever got out of bed

I got law

 Feeling daft beyond gone bland
Made it to the goal on lense
President, he just got hair down below
Tomorrow never more...
Made it to the BCP
Everybody knows it's me
I got up another sand,
The guilty cell
Tomorrow never more...

I Got The Law (x23)

Feeling Dove beyond con-pen (Convict Penitentiary)
Nobody can take it there
Feel it now and do yourself until you're gone
Tomorrow never more...
Tomorrow never more...


I love her

I look at her just to see
Is there anything in there for me?
If you look at her do you see
Is there anything in there for me?

I love her, I love love her
She don't care if I live or die
That is why I love her

So don't talk to me, don't talk to me
There's so little I can say when I feel this way
So don't talk to me, don't talk to me
There's very little I can say when I feel this way

I'm all over

I always knew that there would be
Someone somewhere
Who had it in for me
I always knew that there would be
Noone nowhere
Who was anything like me

I'm all over, all over, all over
You're the only one

I'm hanging around
Going nowhere
Waiting for it to happen to me
I always knew that there would be
Noone nowhere
Who was anything like me

Inertia

Fear of being left behind can take you over
Slowly you will choke
Well maybe it's just a joke
I'm not sure of you

I can't hear you now
There's too much that's going on
You say don't worry, fool
So I don't think at all
Makes me unsure of you, of you

Fear of being left behind can take you over
Slowly you will choke
You say it's just a joke
I'm not sure, are you?

Luminous

 Don't look at me as though I'm not here
You'll only regret what you don't see
You know more than I, so think for me
But think why you're not me

No substitute for the girl of dreams
She never knew who you were
Half your life has been explained
You want the other half again

Don't look at me as though I'm not here
You'll only regret what you don't see
Half my life has been explained...

Mace

 Pedalling on a bicycle
I'm on my way to make a call
I tried to touch you through the double-glazing
But the curtains were drawn and the family on the way

You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
You used to know but now you don't
Noone can see when they've got Mace in their eyes

They're papering the walls and the windows
No light in here, in or out
The heating is on and I'm feeling drowsy
I fall asleep and dream of burning down the house

Repeat chorus

I'm pedalling on a bicycle
I'm on my way to make a call
The sun is out and I'm feeling drowsy
I fall asleep and dream of burning down the house

Repeat chorus

Mr Briggs

 Mr Briggs is on holiday but he stays in his room
It's too cold to go out for his evening smoke
The lady down the hallway is deaf and dumb to what you say
She's too busy dreamng of a chihuahua dog

Say goodbye
Slowly drift away to somewhere
Ooh

Mr Briggs needs sleep now, he's been up for a week
He can hear a buzz-buzz-buzzing in his head
He has a 3-rung heater but it doesn't keep him warm
If he bought another then he'd have three more

Repeat chorus

Mr Briggs, while on holiday, never left his bed
Walked around in circles, but only in his head
The lady down the hallway is running out of pills
She could pull herself together but she knows she never will

Repeat chorus

La la la

My ark

 Please excuse, my tendancy
To colour everything I tell you
You don't understand
It takes me wherever I want to go
This is surely what I need
But I don't always think that way
And in the end
I can't help feeling
I must sober into this

I've got time
To build you up so tall
You won't fall down on me
I've got time
To build you up so tall
You won't fall down on me, down on me

Please excuse
My tendancy
To colour everything I tell you
But in my mind
There's nothing that really
Ever holds us from the truth
So I build My Ark for you
And I hope you do the same for me
In the end, I can't feeling
Just a sobering end to this

I've got time
To build you up so tall
You won't fall down on me
I've got time
To build you up so tall
You won't fall down on me, down on me

Never Clever

I would talk on request
I'm never getting depressed
For a letter request
The public gets what is best

Gene is dead
More or less

It's never clever oh oh
It's never nothing oh oh
It's never clever oh oh
I'm not like you
I'm doing nothing to prove
You're doing nothing to prove
It's double fit, double quick

No monsters in me

Gary Golf stops all the clocks
With night nurse slippers and socks
He tries to keep this thoughts clean
By washing with listerine
A little peck on the cheek
In dazzed pyjamas and sheets
Keep the light on, I'm not tired
I want to read my Dick Francis
Dirty frauleins and nasty nazis

There are no monsters in me

Car alarms letting off steam
Gary hears them in his dreams
Panic outside is seeping in
Just easy-listening to him
Turns in his sleep and smiles to himself
There are no monsters in me
Cos Gary's out on the Green
No growing pains for him
Gary Golf Ball Eyes is not in

Peach

Chemical weeds, best part of the beach
You're always your way you are
What if they're going to close you in?

You've got a gaping hole in your head
I'd let the birds nest there instead
Ah ah

A gun in your pocket and hair in a locket
Around your neck from the girl you once loved
Where is she now?
You've gone crazy

Repeat chorus x 5

People in Europe

Honi soit qui mal y pense
Wo kann affen etwa sonst?
Dos cervesos, por favor
Zu heizen, yes, doch
Ha ha sir, et paradis
Jacqueteure, au secours, mon taille
Europa is AOK
Hola del puerto

Ba ba ba
People in Europe
Ba ba ba
People in Europa

Ciao ciao bella, Monaco
Bon voygae in Sverige
Kom nu med
Vi får dricka maņana
Honi soit mal qui mal y pense
Wo kann affen etwa sonst?
Dos calvesos, por favor
Svenskar in James Bond

Popscene

A fervoured image of another world
Is nothing in particular now
And imitation comes naturally
But I've never really stopped to think how
And everyone is a clever clone
A chrome-covered clone am I

So in the absence of a way of life
I'll repeat this again and again and again

Hey hey, come out tonight
Hey hey, come out tonight
Popscene, alright
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

I'm leaving town to run away
Run into your twisted arms
No queues and there's no panic there
Just dangling your feet in the grass
My lack of natural lustre now
Seems to be losing me friends

So in the absence of a way of life
I'll repeat this again and again and again

Hey hey, come out tonight
Hey hey, come out tonight
Hey hey, come out tonight
Hey hey, come out tonight
Popscene, alright

So in the absence of a way of life
I'll repeat this again and again and again

Hey hey, come out tonight
Hey hey, come out tonight
Popscene, alright

Song 2 (original lyrics)

as performed at Hultsfred festival, Sweden, June 1996 - thanks to Becka!

Wohoo x4

You try then suffer
Unemic birth-er
Gets in the way-ey
He never earns her

Wohoo
'Cause he did run it easy
Wohoo
If I will do the same
Wohoo
'Cause you're sick and you're easy
All that you get when you ever say
'Cause you're never
pleased to see me

I never taught her
And 'cause how easy
She's not my problem
It's not my problem

Wohoo
'Cause I know what my name is
Wohoo
And I go on again
Wohoo
If you ever regret it
You don't say what you never deem
'Cause you're never
pleased to see me

Oh Yeah x4

Swallows in the heatwave

I want to contribute to natural selection
Buy myself a razor
Watch swallows in the heatwave
Meet the rebel leaders
They're coming 'cause they need us

I don't have a history for religion
Going out to get one
Get into a Volvo
Drive into the mountains
And watch swallows in the heatwave

The man who left himself

All good people your time will come
Work forever and still not be done
Close your tired eyes, noone knows you've gone
It's not forever but today you've become

The man who left himself

Don't belong here, your heart beats too fast
Feel the mis-beat, it starts and stops
Don't be frightened, these things never last
Maybe tomorrow your time will have passed

It's the man who left himself

To the end (La comédie)

Tous ces bals masqués (si peu d'amour)
Du mauvais cinéma (et tant de haine)
We've been drinking far too much (si peu d'amour)
And neither of us mean what we say (et tant de haine)

La comédie du grand amour
Vous ne me ferez pas l'injure de la jouer jusqu'au bout
De me la jouer jusqu'au bout

Pourquoi tant de haine? (si peu d'amour)
C'est un accident de voir (et tant de haine)
Infatuated only with ourselves (si peu d'amour)
And neither of us can think straight anymore (et tant de haine)

You and I collapsed in love
And it looks like we might have made it
Yes it looks like we've made it to the end

La comédie du grand amour
Je ne vous ferai pas l'honneur de la jouer jusqu'au bout
De vous la jouer jusqu'au bout

Ultranol

For coughs and colds and scabby holes
Itchy pimples, unseemly moles
For funny turns and Chinese burns
For aching heads we're most concerned
For staying lively, getting it nightly
This we guarantee

That Ultranol is the new remedy
Before you go to bed take two or three
When you wake up you'll feel better

For aches and pains and jellied brains
Help you sleep and smile again
Nouw you're aimless, blameless, almost nameless
You get much more although you pay less
Revitalise that sexual drive
In fact, be born again

Yes Ultranol will put you on the map
Take four or five then have a little nap
When you wake up you'll feel better

For your coughs and scabby holes
Keep you young although you're feeling old
If you're not protected you're going to get is
So suck 'em and see, you won't regret it
Suck 'em and see

Uncle Love

Uncle Love has had a message from God
That you are driving him crazy
Tomorrow he says that the doctor comes with
A drink to make him lazy
Did you realize that Uncle Love has got a couple in his hand?
Everything sticks to you like glue
But it only makes you lazy

You should hear what they say about you every day
You should hear what they say about you every day
Uncle Love is going to get you

Uncle Love has had a message from God
That you are driving him crazy
And everything sticks to you like glue
But it just makes you lazy

Repeat chorus

Young and lovely

Friday's child is planning to out for the first time
Says "Don't worry Mum, I won't be out that late"
Can't be playing those passive games right now, they're out of date
You're awfully sweet, haven't got the time
Growing up so fast, got better things to do

You can get what you want, you're so young and lovely
Oh, oh, la, la, la

Kicking around the centre of the town lookin gthrough shop windows
Those mannequins look far too real at night
Friday's child doesn't know if it's awake or if it's dreaming
Says "Don't worry Dad, I'll do my bit, I'll raise the flag
I'll be just like you"

"Don't worry Mum, I'm not that dumb, I'll be just like you"

All songs are by Albarn/Blur or Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree except "Dying isn't easy" by Damon Albarn and "To the end (la comédie)" with lyrics by Hardy/Albarn and music by Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree. Published by MCA Music on Food Records under exclusive license to EMI Records between 1990 and 2000 (except "Dying isn't easy"). No copyright infringement intended.