Тексты песен альбома Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

  • For Tomorrow
  • Advert
  • Colin Zeal
  • Pressure On Julian
  • Starshaped
  • Blue Jeans
  • Chemical World
  • Intermission
  • Sunday Sunday
  • Oily Water
  • Miss America
  • Villa Rosie
  • Coping
  • Turn It Up
  • Resigned
  •     Commercial Break



  • For Tomorrow
    He's a twentieth century boy
    With his hands on the rails
    Trying not to be sick again
    And holding on for tomorrow
    London ice cracks on a seamless line
    He's hanging on for dear life
    So we hold each other tightly
    And hold on for tomorrow

    Singing
    La la, la la la
    La la la la la la la la (x3)

    Holding on for tomorrow
    She's a twentieth century girl
    With her hands on the wheel
    Trying not to make him sick again
    Seeing what she can borrow
    London's so nice back in your seamless rhymes
    But we're we're lost on the Westway
    So we hold each other tightly
    And hold on for tomorrow

    Singing
    La la, la la la
    La la la la la la la la (x3)

    Trying not to be sick again
    And holding for tomorrow
    She's a twentieth century girl
    Hanging on for dear life
    So we hold each other tightly
    And hold on for tomorrow

    Singing
    La la, la la la
    La la la la la la la la (x3)

    Jim stops and gets out the car
    Goes to a house in Emperor's gate
    Through the door and to his room
    Then he puts the TV on,
    Turns it off and makes some tea
    Says Modern Life Is Rubbish
    I'm holding on for tomorrow
    Then Susan comes into the room,
    She's a naughty girl with a lovely smile
    Says let's take a drive to Primrose Hill
    It's windy there and the view's so nice
    London ice can freeze your toes
    Like anyone I suppose
    I'm holding on for tomorrow



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    Advert
    (ad lib from the shopping channel)
    It`s six o`clock on the dot
    And I`m half way home
    I feel foul mouthed as I stand
    And wait for the underground
    And a nervous disposition
    Doesn`t agree with this
    I need something to remind me
    That there is something else

    You need a holiday somewhere in the sun
    With all the people who are waiting
    There never seems to be one
    Say something, say something else

    Advertisements are here
    For rapid persuasion
    If you stare too long
    You lose your appetite
    A nervous disposition
    Doesn`t agree with this
    You need a fast relief from aches
    And stomach pains

    You need a holiday somewhere in the sun
    With all the people who are waiting
    There never seems to be one
    Say something, say something else
    Do you advert think?




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    Colin Zeal
    Colin Zeal know the value of mass appeal
    He`s a pedestrian walker,
    He`s a civil talker
    He`s an affable man with a plausible plan
    Keeps his eyes on the new,
    Keeps his future in hand
    And then he
    Looks at his watch
    He`s on time yet again
    He`s pleased whit himself,
    So pleased whit himself,
    He`s pleased with himself, ah ah

    While sitting in traffic,
    Colin thinks in automatic
    He`s an immaculate dresser,
    He`s the common aggressor
    He`s modern retard
    With a love of bombast
    Keeps his eye on news
    Never dwells on the past
    And then he
    Looks at his watch
    He`s on time yet again
    He`s pleased whit himself,
    So pleased whit himself,
    He`s pleased with himself, ah ah

    He`s a modern retard,
    He`s terminal lard,
    He`s and affable man
    With a carrotene tan
    Because Colin Zeal is ill



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    Pressure On Julian
    Only the magical transit children sing,
    Sing the lullaby bah bah bah
    Sitting on the pavement
    Sucking on a long straw,
    It`s colourful, it`s colourful,
    But it washes you out
    Here`s is my violence
    And here is the excuse,
    I learnt it all but only second hand
    Falling into walls well what is it with you
    You`d never know, never know,
    Never know

    We planned it all this way,
    We planned it all this way
    Pressure on Julian

    Swimming in yellow pissy water
    Sand getting in between the ears
    No blood in head in this bloody weather
    Irate people with yellow tongues
    Only the magical transit children sing
    Sing the lullaby bah bah bah
    Falling into walls well what is it with you
    You`d never know, never know,
    Never know

    We planned it all this way,
    We planned it all this way
    Pressure on Julian

    There was pressure on Julian,
    Pushing trolleys in the car park
    From b to 1 then back to b,
    Pressure on Julian,

    He keeps passing out,
    Poor, precious little snout,
    The birds are singing at night,
    Pressure on Julian



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    Starshaped
    Wash with new soap behind the collar
    Keeps a clean mental state
    Don`t usually bother in cold weather
    But still I`m getting into work late

    And I don`t need practice
    I`ve been making plans (for the future)
    Become and unconscious man (all for the good)
    Feel so unnecessary (we don`t think so, you seen starshaped)

    I have a couple at the week end
    Helps keep up camaraderie
    And my mind boggles
    In the muddle at the possibilities

    And I don`t need practice
    I`ve been making plans (for the future)
    Become and unconscious man (all for the good)
    Feel so unnecessary (we don`t think so, you seen starshaped)

    Wash with the new soap behind the collar
    Helps keep down the laundry
    And now I bother in cold weather
    Because it cleans me mentally



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    Blue Jeans
    Air cushioned soles
    I bought them on the Portobello Road
    On a sunday

    I stop and stay awhile
    A common pastime
    When conversation goes astray

    But don't think I'm walking out of this
    She doesn't mind,
    Whatever I say,
    Whatever I say
    I don't really want to change a thing.
    I want to stay this way
    Forever...

    Blue, blue jeans
    I wear them everyday
    There's no particular reason to change

    My thoughts are getting banal,
    I can't help it but I won't pull out hair
    Another day

    But don't think I'm walking out of this
    She doesn't mind,
    Whatever I say,
    Whatever I say
    I don't really want to change a thing.
    I want to stay this way
    Forever...

    You know it's to be with you



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    Chemical World
    The pay-me girl has hand enough
    Of the bleeps
    So she takes a bus into a country
    Although she got herself rosy cheeks
    She didn`t leave enough money
    To pay the rent
    What a shame she was just getting comfy
    Now she`s eating chocolate
    In induce sleep
    In a chemical world
    It`s very very very cheap

    And I don`t know about you
    They `re putting the holes in yes yes
    It`s been a hell of a do
    They`ve been putting the holes in yes yes

    Peeping Thomas has a very nice view
    Across the street at the exhibitionist
    These townies they never speak to you
    Just sick together so they never get lonely
    Felling lead, feeling quite light headed
    Had to sit down and have some sugary tea
    A chemical world, in a chemical world
    It`s very very very cheap



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    Intermission
    instrumental



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    Sunday Sunday

    Sunday, Sunday here again in tidy attire
    You read the colour supplement, the tv guide
    You dream of protein on a plate
    Regret you left it quite so late
    To gather the family around the table
    To eat enough to sleep
    On the Sunday sleep

    Sunday, Sunday here again a walk in the park
    You meet an old soldier and talk of the past
    He fought for us in the two world wars
    And says the England he knew is no more
    He sing the songs of praise every week
    But always falls to sleep
    For that Sunday sleep

    Sunday, Sunday here again in tidy attire
    You read the colour supplement, the tv guide
    You dream of protein on a plate
    Regret you left it quite so late
    To gather the family around the table
    To eat enough to sleep
    And mother's pride is you epithet
    The extra slice you will soon regret
    So going out is your best bet
    Then bingo yourself to sleep
    On the Sunday sleep



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    Oily Water
    Lead in me and me in water
    Danling in my world
    I swallowed too much oily water
    It keeps slipping down my spine

    In a sense of self in decline
    Growing fat on sound
    It`s only an early morning dream
    And the whole world will be alright

    My head is full of suspicion
    I`m coming home sometime
    I`ve swallowed too much oily water
    It keeps slipping down my spine

    It a sense of self decline
    Lying on my back
    It`s only and early morning dream
    And so the whole world will be alrigth



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    Miss America
    Miss America sits in the shower
    She`s plucking hours from the sky
    Picks up the telephone, into another home
    Don`t ask me why

    I don`t mind, I don`t mind at all
    I love only you

    She`s a well wisher
    And she wishes you well
    Wish away, wish away
    She`s no jellybean, she`s a jeminma ho ho
    Wish away, wish away

    I don`t mind I don`t mind at all
    I love only you
    Da do da da do

    Here is here and I am here
    Where are you
    Far away, far away
    She`s no jellybean, she`s a jeminma ho ho
    Wish away, wish away



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    Villa Rosie
    Practice doesn`t make prefect
    When you`re interbreeding
    Speaking drivel can it get confused
    With heavy breathing?
    Mixing drinks at water holes
    Get snarled up in the suburbs
    Meandering through this and that
    You are suspected of vagueness

    When work is done,
    Go to villia rosie every night
    (We`re waiting)

    So form a-queue at villa rosie every night(so tasty)
    Across the common every day
    You come across the fine line
    But wearing boots can prevent the leeches
    In long grass

    Eating between meals stifles the appetite is it healthy?
    Coming home that nagging doubt there in your belly
    And all the while at villa rosie every night (we’re tasting)
    A sweeter life at villa rosie every night (so tasty)
    All losers come ti Villa Rosie every night(we’re waiting)
    So form a queue at Villa Rosie every night(so tasty)
    Don’t break your back at Villa Rosie every night(we’re tasting)
    A sweeter life at villa rosie every night (so tasty)



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    Coping
    Primal, evil what am I?
    Tongue-tied until the day I die
    There's no ooze made with mermaids
    It's just distraction or so they say

    But I’m too tired to care about it
    Can't you see it in my face, my face
    When I feel this strange
    Can I go through this again
    When I feel this strange
    Can I go through this again

    It's a sorry state you're getting in
    The same excuse is wearing thin
    There's no self control left in me
    What was not will never be

    But I’m too tired to care about it
    Can't you see it in my face, my face
    When I feel this strange
    Can I go through this again
    When I feel this strange
    Can I go through this again



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    Turn It Up
    Kazoo, kazoo, you are mine
    I give you my heart every time

    Turn it up, turn it off, turn it in

    Anyway you choose,
    Anyway you choose at all
    Sometimes you do too much,
    Sometimes it all gets too much



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    Resigned
    I think too much
    On things I want too much
    It makes me hateful
    And I say stupid things

    Only you
    Can fill my blank heart
    And I'm resigned to that

    I wish the sun
    Could just keep me warm
    And I'm resigned to that

    I'll forget
    To breathe someday
    I've never stopped to think why



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    Commercial Break
    instrumental