Cover di The Great Escape

The Great Escape
Album - 6 settembre 1995 - Debaser id 11690

di Blur

01
Stereotypes (03:11)
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The suburbs they are dreaming
They're a twinkle in her eye
She's been feeling frisky
Since her husband said goodbye
She wears a low-cut T-shirt
Runs a little B&B
She's most accommodating
When she's in her lingerie

Wife swapping is your future
You know that it would suit ya

Yes, the stereotypes, there must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming and when you stop dreaming
From time to time you know
You should be going on another bender

The suburbs they are sleeping
But she's dressing up tonight
She likes a man in uniform
He likes to wear it tight
They're on the lover's sofa
They're on the patio
And when the fun is over
Watch themselves on video

The neighbours may be staring
But they just lost caring

Yes, the stereotypes, there must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming and when you stop dreaming
From time to time you know
You're going on another bender

Yes, there must be more to life than stereotypes

Wife swapping is your future
You know that it would suit ya

Yes, the stereotypes, there must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming and when you stop dreaming
From time to time you know
You should be going on another bender

Yes, there must be more to life than stereotypes
All your life you're dreaming and when you stop dreaming
From time to time you know
You should go on another bender

If for you come to offend her
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02
Country House (03:57)
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So the story begins)
City dweller
Successful fella
Thought to himself:
"Oops, I've got a 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
Caught up in the century's anxiety"

Yes, it preys on him
He's 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 Jack and Dory
Touched with his own mortality
He's reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac
It's a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland
Oh, it's a century's remedy
For the faint at heart
A new start
(Try the simple life)

He lives in a house
A very big house
In the country
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
You should come to no harm
On the animal farm
In the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)
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04
Charmless Man (03:35)
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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 thinks he's educated, heirs those family shares
Will protect him, we'll 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

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

He talks at speed he gets nosebleeds
He doesn't see his days are tumbling down upon him
And yet he tries so hard to please
He's just so keen for you to listen
But no-one's listening
And when you put it all together there's the model of a charmless man
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05
Fade Away (04:19)
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They stumbled into their lives
In a vague way became man and wife
One got the other they deserved one another
They settled in a brand new town
With people from the same background
Kept themselves busy
Long hours left them dizzy
Now when he's in, she's out

All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away
They are not making plans
Because now they understand
All you ever do is fade away

He noticed he had visible lines
She worried about her behind
Their birth had been the death of them
It didn't really bother them
Now when she's in, he's out

All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away
She's not making plans
Because now she understand
All you ever do is fade away

When he's in, she's out

All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away
They're not making plans
Because now they understand
You must learn to forget
Cause this is all you have
All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away

They're not making plans
Because now they understand
All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away
All you ever do is fade away
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07
The Universal (03:59)
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This is the next century
Where the universals free
You can find it anywhere
Yes the future's been sold
Every night we're gone
And to Karaoke songs
How we like to sing along
Though the words are wrong

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

No one here is alone
Satellites in every home
Yes the universals here
Here for everyone
Every paper that you read
Says tomorrow 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 they seem to fall through you
Just let them go

Well it really really really could happen
Yes it really really really could happen
When the days they seem to fall through you
Just let them go

Just let them go

Just let them go
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09
He Thought of Cars (04:16)
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Moscow is still red, the young man's dead
Gone to heaven instead
The evening news says he was confused

The motorways will all merge soon
Lottery winner buys the moon
They've come to save us
The space invaders are here

He thought of cars
And where, where to drive them
And who to drive there with
But there, there was no-one, no-one

There's panic at London Heathrow
Everybody wants to go up into the blue
But there's a ten year queue

Columbia is in top gear
It shouldn't snow this time of year
America�s shot she's gone and done the lot

He thought of planes
And where, where to fly to
And who to fly there with
But there, there was no-one, no-one
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11
Ernold Same (02:07)
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Ernold Same awoke from the same dream
In the same bed
At the same time
Looked in the same mirror
Made the same frown
And felt the same way as he did every day
Then Ernold Same caught the same train
At the same station
Sat in the same seat
With the same nasty stain
Next to same old what's-his-name
On his way to the same place
With the same name
To do the same thing
Again and again and again
Poor old Ernold Same
Oh, Ernold Same
His world stays the same
Today will always be tomorrow
Poor old Ernold Same
He's getting that feeling once again
Nothing will change tomorrow
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12
Globe Alone (02:23)
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Who maddest one on the M1
Who hasn't stopped sucking his thumb
Who very straight and never grins
Who cares what car he's driving in

He is because he saw it on a commercial break
And if he doesn't get what he wants
Then he get a headache
'Cos he needs it
Wants it
Almost
Loves it
He's here on his own
On globe alone
Here on his own

Who joined health club to glisten
Into hi-fi precision
Who mobile phone gives him the bone
Who very keen on Sharon Stone

And then he says...

Who eats at the new brasserie
Who only ever gets merry
Who wouldn't be seen at bedtime
Without putting Calvin Klein's on
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13
Dan Abnormal (03:24)
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Meanie Leanie come on down
Come and entertain the town
It's friday night and we're all bored
Times being called there is no more
Times being called it's such a bore

Dan Abnormal not normal at all
It's not his fault we made him this way
He'll imitate you, try to ape you
But it's not his fault Dan watches tv, tv, tv

Meanie Leanie stays up late
Mopes around gets in a state
The killer in your arcade
Shooting gangstas ready made
Cause that is where the future's made

Dan Abnormal not normal at all
It's not his fault we made him this way
He'll imitate you, try to ape you
But it's not his fault Dan watches tv, tv, tv

Dan went to his local burger bar
I want mcnormal and chips
Or I'll blow you to bits
Give us it

It's the miseries at half past three
Watching video nasties
He has dirty dreams when he's asleep
Dan's just like you and me
He's the Meanie Leanie

Dan Abnormal not normal at all
It's not his fault we made him this way
He'll imitate you, try to ape you
But it's not his fault Dan watches tv, tv, tv
Dan Abnormal not normal at all
It's not his fault we made him this way
He'll imitate you, try to ape you
But it's not his fault Dan's as normal as me
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14
Entertain Me (04:19)
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The weekend is back
But so is he
Head to the floodlights
See the fraternity
They're waiting

I hear them up in the north
Down in the south
All that is spewing
Spewing out of his mouth

Entertain me

At his'n'hers dating
Bored minds agree
Requirements to be stated
And replies awaited

She wants a loose fit
He wants Instant Whip
Guesstimates her arrival
Will she want it
Really badly?

Entertain me

A car
A house
Both in a street
The boredom of a sober week
The weekend's here
Hip-hip-hooray
To make the blues
Just go away

Entertain me
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15
Yuko and Hiro (03:54)
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this is my work place
and these are the people i work with
yuko and hiro
we work together
we work for the company
that works to the future
they will protect us
we work together

I never see you
we are never together
i'll love you forever

i drink in the evenings
it helps with relaxing
i can't sleep without drinking
we drink together
from monday to saturday
i go to my workplace
but on sunday we are together
yuko and hiro
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16
Ultranol (02:41)
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For coughs and colds ans scabby holes
Itchy pimples, unseemly moles
For funny turns and chinese burns
For aching heads we're not concerned
For staying lively, getting it nightly
This we guarantee

That's Ultranol, here's the new remedy
Before you go to bed take 2 or 3
When you wake you'll feel better
lalalalala lalalalala
lalalalala lalalalala

For aches and pains and jellied brains
Help you sleep and smile again
They'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 4 or 5 then have a little nap
When you wake up you'll feel better

For coughs and colds and your scabby holes
lalalalala lalalalala
Keep you young although you're feeling old
lalalalala lalalalala
If you're not protected you're gonna get it
lalalalala lalalalala
So suck them and see you won't regret it
lalalalala lalalalala

Suck them and see
Suck them and see
Suck them and see
Suck them and see
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17
No Monsters in Me (05:14)
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Gary Golf stops all the clocks
With night nurse slippers and socks
He tries to keep his 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 fraulines and nasty nazis

CHORUS:
La la la la, la la la la,
There are no monsters in me (x2)

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
Cause Gary's out on the green
No growing pains for him
Cause Gary Golf ball eyes is not in

REPEAT CHORUS
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