“There Are Too Many of Us” is the second single from Blur’s 2015 studio album The Magic Whip.
This call out to overpopulation was inspired in part by the Australian hostage crisis, which unfolded in December 2014. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt cho...
[Verse 1]
There are too many of us
That's plain to see
We all believe in praying
For our immortality
We've posed these questions to our children
That calls them all to stray
And live in tiny houses
Of the same mistakes we made
[Chorus]
'Cause there are too many of us
In tiny houses here and there
Passing out of somewhere
But you won't care
[Verse 2]
There are too many of us
That's plain to see
And we all believe in praying
For our own immortality
For a moment, I was dislocated
My terror on a loop elsewhere
The flashing lights part vacated
On the big screens everywhere
[Chorus]
'Cause there are too many of us
In tiny houses here and there
Just passing out of somewhere
But you won't care
[Verse 3]
There are too many of us
In tiny houses here and there
All looking through the windows
On everything we share
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 4]
We pose these questions to our children
It leads them all to stray
And live in tiny houses
Of the same mistakes we make
[Chorus]
'Cause there are too many of us
Oh, that's plain to see
All living in tiny houses (Passing out of somewhere)
Of our own mortality (But you won't care)
There Are Too Many of Us was written by Damon Albarn & Dave Rowntree & Alex James & Graham Coxon.
There Are Too Many of Us was produced by Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon & Stephen Street.
Blur released There Are Too Many of Us on Fri Mar 20 2015.