#29

"Beetlebum"
Blur
Blur

Nmber of listens: ||
Stars (out of 5): 4

This song feels much longer than it's three and a half minutes and maybe it's because of it's soft-loud-soft-loud structure which can sometimes give a song multiple lives. There's nothing too exciting going on anywhere in the song, but when put together it totally works and it's a great one. I think most everyone alive in the early '00s would recognize the hook of this song and it occurs multiple times.

Blur cracks me up because their thick accents come out in the songs and often it's difficult to realize the real lyrics. So you sing along for years and then one day you see the lyrics written out and realize you've had them wrong all that time.

Beetlebum
What you done
She’s a gun
Now what you’ve done
Beetlebum
Get nothing done
You beetlebum
Just get numb
Now what you’ve done
Beetlebum

And when she lets me slip away
She turns me on all my violence is gone
Nothing is wrong, I just slip away and I am gone
Nothing is wrong, she turns me on

Beetlebum
Because you’re young
She’s a gun
Now what you’ve done
Beetlebum
She’ll suck your thumb
She’ll make you come
Coz, she’s your gun
Now what you’ve done
Beetlebum
He’s on, he’s on, he’s on it