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Avalon

Release date: 20th July 2023

From The Ballad Of Darren
Track 9
3:05
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'Avalon' is a 2023 alternative track by Blur, taken from 'The Ballad Of Darren'. The lyrics look askance at chasing happiness and repeat the sense of a race that seems to restart almost immediately. There is a persistent feeling of being pulled apart, with an image of waves carrying people towards “Avalon” before they crash on its shores. The tone is restless and self-questioning, as if the speaker cannot quite locate the finish line, or the version of events that could have worked out.

"Avalon" is a track by Blur, from the album The Ballad Of Darren, released 20th July 2023. The track is 3:05 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Blur.

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Avalon

What's the point in building Avalon
If you can't be happy when it's done?
Who is in the race again
Doesn't seem a long time since the last one?
Wishing I could still make you happy
Torn apart somehow
Must be the waves we were carried on
Crashing on the shores of Avalon
Then grey-painted aeroplanes fly over
On their way to war
And I'm dialling in, I'm dialling out
There's darkness at the door
Then I overdo my dose and I don't even know I'm here anymore
It's just something that comes to us all
What's the point in painting Avalon
If you can't be present when it's done?
Who is in the vale again
Picking up the apples of Avalon?
Then grey-painted aeroplanes fly over
On their way to war
And I'm dialling in, I'm dialling out
But the glass is still half full
Then I overdo my dose and I don't even know I'm here anymore
It's just something that comes to us all

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From The Ballad Of Darren

3:052023
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The Ballad Of Darren
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Blur
21st July 2023
Track number
9
Release year
2023
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    3:55
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