Blur's self-titled fifth album (1997) saw another stylistic shift, influenced by the lo-fi styles of American indie rock groups, and became their third UK chart-topping album. Its single "Song 2" brought the band mainstream success in the US for the first time. Their next album, 13 (1999) saw the band experimenting with electronic and gospel music, and featured more personal lyrics from Albarn. Their seventh album, Think Tank (2003), continued their experimentation with electronic sounds and was also shaped by Albarn's growing interest in hip hop and world music, featuring more minimal guitar work. Coxon left the band during early recording sessions for Think Tank, and Blur disbanded for several years after the end of the album's associated tour, with the members engaged in other projects.
In 2009, Blur reunited with Coxon back in the band and embarked on a European reunion tour. In the following years, they released several singles and compilations and toured internationally. In 2012, they received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Their eighth album, The Magic Whip (2015), was the sixth consecutive Blur studio album to top the British chart. The group have largely been on hiatus since the Magic Whip tour, but have announced plans to reunite in 2023 for various live dates.
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Studio albums
Leisure (1991)
Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
Parklife (1994)
The Great Escape (1995)
Blur (1997)
13 (1999)
Think Tank (2003)
The Magic Whip (2015)
The Ballad of Darren (2023)
Best Days
Blur Lyrics
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Over the river they all go again
Out into leafy nowhere hope someone
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-yo's, all on their own down Soho
Please take me home
Other people wouldn't want to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
Other people would turn around an d laugh at you
If you said that these were 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 dial 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'd turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Everyone'd break into a cold sweat
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
And other people'd turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Of our lives
The lyrics of Best Days by Blur have a melancholic tone, depicting the mundanity of life in the city. The opening lyrics, "Bow bells say goodbye to the last train, over the river they all go again" alludes to the departure of people, perhaps going home after a long day at work. The following line, "Out into leafy nowhere hope someone waiting out there for them," suggests that despite going home, people feel isolated and alone. The cabbie's character is introduced, who has to work nights and picks up the "London yo-yos, all on their own down Soho." The chorus repeats several times, and it talks about how others won't agree that these are the best days of their lives.
The second verse focuses on different characters - one living in Trellick Tower - with the line "I know she'll leave me in the morning" signifying a transient and lonely existence. The hotel cell part is about the singer being in a foreign city on a business trip, listening to dial tones and cable moans. The last line, "If you said that these are the best days of our lives," is repeated several times, becoming more desperate each time. Overall, the song highlights the feeling of being disconnected in the city, and how the daily grind can be draining without something to look forward to.
Line by Line Meaning
Bow bells say goodbye to the last train
The sound of the Bow bells signal the last train of the day, indicating that it's time for people to go home.
Over the river they all go again
People travel over the river to get back home.
Out into leafy nowhere hope someone
People are going back to their homes in suburban areas which are peaceful and quiet.
Waiting out there for them
Their loved ones or family members are waiting for them at home.
Cabbie has his mind on a fare to the sun
The taxi driver wishes he had a fare to a more exciting place like a beach or a holiday destination.
He works nights but it's not much fun
The taxi driver works at night, but it's not very enjoyable for him.
Picks up the London yo-yo's, all on their own down Soho
He picks up passengers who are alone and wandering around Soho.
Please take me home
The passengers request to be taken to their homes.
Trellick Tower's been calling
The singer is being drawn towards the Trellick Tower, possibly because it holds a significant memory for him.
I know she'll leave me in the morning
The singer knows that his lover will leave him in the morning and he's trying to come to terms with it.
In hotel cells listening to dial tones
The singer is in a hotel room waiting for something to happen, but all he hears are the sounds of dial tones.
Remote controls and cable moans
The singer is bored and lonely, flipping through TV channels and listening to the sound of the TV in the background.
In his drink he's been talking
He's been drinking and talking to himself, possibly to forget his loneliness.
Gets disconnected sleepwalking back home
The singer is so drunk that he can't remember how he got back home.
Other people wouldn't want to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
Other people would turn around an d laugh at you
If you said that these were the best days of our lives
If you told someone that these were the best days of their lives, they would not believe you or would laugh at you. If you said these were the best days of our lives, people would think you are wrong.
Everyone'd break into a cold sweat
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
And other people'd turn around and laugh at you
If you said that these are the best days of our lives
Of our lives
If you told people that these were the best days of their lives, they would become anxious and doubtful. If you said that these were the best days of our lives, others would ridicule you for thinking that way.
Lyrics ยฉ BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: STEVEN ALEXANDER JAMES, DAVID ROWNTREE, DAMON ALBARN, GRAHAM COXON
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LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
Bow 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-yo's
All on their own down Soho, take me home
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
Trellick Tower's been calling
I know she'll leave me in the morning
In hotel cells, listening to dial tones
Remote controls and cable moans
In his drink, he's talking
Gets disconnected sleepwalking back home
[Chorus]
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
[Instrumental break]
[Chorus]
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
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Best Days - Blur
Bow bells say goodbye to the last train
๊ตํ ์ข ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ง์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํฅํด ์๋ณ์ธ์ฌํ๊ณ
Over the river they all go again
๊ฐ์ ๋์ด ๋ค์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ ๋๋ค
Out into leafy nowhere
์ด๋๋ ์๋ ์ ๋ฐ ํ์ด ๋ฌด์ฑํ ๊ณณ
Hope someone's waiting out there for them
๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ฉด์
Cabbie has his mind on a fare to the sun
ํ์์ด์ ์๋ ํ์๊น์ง์ ์๊ธ์ ์๊ฐํด
He works nights but it's not much fun
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐค๊น์ง ์ผํ์ง๋ง ๋ณด๋์ ์์ด
Picks up the London yo-yos
๋ฐ๋์์ ํ์ธ์ ํ์ฐ๊ณ ์
All on their own down in SoHo
๋ชจ๋๋ค ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ํธ๊น์ง ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ
Take me home
์ง์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ ค๋ค์ค
Other people wouldn't like to hear you
๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ์ง ์์๊ฑฐ์ผ
If you said
๋ค๊ฐ ๋งํ๊ธธ
that these are the best days of our lives
์ด๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ์๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค๋ฉด
And other people'd turn around and laugh at you
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋์์์ ๋ ๋น์๊ฒ ์ง
Trellick Tower's been calling
ํธ๋ ๋ฆญ ํ์๊ฐ ๊นจ์ด๋๊ณ ์์ด
I know she'll leave me in the morning
์์นจ์ด๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ ๋ ๋๊ฒ ์ง
In hotel cells listening to dial tones
ํธํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ ํ๋ฐ์ ์์ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉฐ
Remote controls and cable moans
๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์ปจ๊ณผ ์ผ์ด๋ธ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ
In his drink he's talking
์ทจ์ค์ธ ๋จ์๋ ๊ณ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์์ด
Gets disconnected sleepwalking back home
๋์ด์ง ์ ํ์ ๋ชฝ์ ๋ณ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋ฏ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ
Other people'd break into a cold sweat
๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์๋์ ํ๋ฆด๊ฑฐ์ผ
If you said
๋ง์ผ ๋ค๊ฐ
that these are the best days of their lives
์ด๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ธ์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ์๊ฐ์ด๋ผ ๋งํ๋ค๋ฉด
@stevendenny5667
Bow 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 yo's
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 our 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 dial tones
Remote controls and cable moans
Door bells say goodbye to the last train
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.
@popsc3ne
one of my favourite blur songs, itโs nowhere near talked about enough
@chimpspanker
Agreed.
@heybonbon8884
I 100% agree. The lyrics are beautiful
@ConsumerkingUk
my thoughts entirely
@leob4403
Blur has the highest amount of overlooked songs in music history probably. There are atleast 50 bangers that are completely forgotten about, where if another band would have written one of these songs it would have been their biggest hit song
@rustyfynn
Agreed. Such a well crafted piece of songwriting.
@eugeneaxe
Great Escape is their best album in my view.
@archiet2205
Facts
@Mattteus
But Parklife exists
@luan4753
@@Mattteus yes, and different opinions does too