No Distance Left To Run
by Blur

Album: 13 (1999)
Charted: 14
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Songfacts®:

  • Lead singer Damon Albarn wrote this about his breakup with Justine Frischmann from the band Elastica. He reportedly wept while writing this death knell to their romance.
  • The video used night-vision cameras to show all four members of the band asleep in their beds. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2

Comments: 3

  • Angelo from Manila, Philippinesgreatest break-up song... ever!!
  • Jeremiah from Denver, CoHeartbreaking song from a criminally underrated album. Blur's 13 is a work of art.
  • Alejandro from Mexico D.f., Mexicogreat song... one of the saddest I´ve heard
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