Hope You Find Your Suburb is not a released song. It's not even a B-side, it never made it past the demo stage. It was only put in the Blur 21 box (which I don't have of course -- I found the song on YouTube). Why was this? Apparently Damon had writer's block or something. Lyrically, that is. The tune is Eine Kleine Lift Musik, a B-side of The Great Escape (Blur's fourth album, 1995). Hope You Find Your Suburb is Eine Kleine Lift Musik with words. And oh --- did it matter what the words were? Just the way Damon's vocals hit would have made this good enough to get on the album!
All they needed was that chorus. I hope you find your suburb, with someone made for you, with that beautiful musik in the background. Apologies for the following absolute mess of my mind, by the way.
(1) I hope you find your suburb, with someone made for you.
(2) It's so very The Great Escape, but that nice calm version of The Great Escape, that world where Best Days and The Universal and He Thought of Cars and Yuko and Hiro came from. Now really this is mostly a review of Eine Kleine Lift Musik because it is Eine Kleine Lift Musik, but this is better because the vocals are so perfect with the musik. It all fits together. Yes, it's very Yuko and Hiro. It's got the same innocent, optimistic, precious quality. (Don't you think it's funny how every time they made an instrumental it ended up carousel music? Um cough cough Debt Collector cough cough end of Mr Robinson's Quango cough cough Lot 105 cough cough Intermission (sort of) cough cough Optigan 1.)
(3) I really wish they finished this song! Honestly I could listen to it forever as it is, though.
(4) It was stuck in my head for most of today. I like to think if something sticks in my head it's got to be a good song. And it's kind of perfect for The Great Escape. It's all cynical and stuff about those city dwellers and the charmless men and the loveless couples and the suburbs that are sleeping and this guy who isn't normal at all. But then it's like hey a lot of the world's like that mate so I Hope You Find Your Suburb And Someone Made For You because it's the world we live in --- it's innocent, it's optimistic, because we should be innocent and optimistic, it's our life, I mean I've already resigned myself to the 9-5 but it's not resigning really, it's only a problem if we're unhappy about it... honestly what do you want to be, a rock star? It sounds great, it looks great, thing is it probably is great but thing is do we need to be great to feel happy? I think it's not right that we do. Besides, it's not as if being a rock star is special. After all that they end up in a cheese farm or something... even during it they go home to their suburb same as anyone in between... whether it's playing music or working 9-5 or doing nothing at all, what's the difference... we're all the same, all exactly the same... It sounds stupid but nothing is settling for humdrumness, it's not settling at all in a way, it's living life one way or another. I just hope I find my suburb and someone made for me. And I hope you do too.
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