Garbage

Released: April 11, 2005

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Everything you think you know, baby, is wrong
And everything you think you had, baby, is gone

[Pre-Chorus]
Certain things turn ugly when you think too hard
And nagging little thoughts change into things you can't turn off
Everything you think you know baby, is wrong

[Chorus]
It's all over but the crying
Fade to black, I'm sick of trying
Took too much and now I'm done
Oh, it's all over but the crying

[Verse 2]
Do you really think I'm made of stone? Baby, c'mon!
That we only love the things we own? Baby, you're wrong

[Pre-Chorus]
Certain things just happen when you make no plans
And love can really tear you up and it can break you down
Everything you think you know, baby, is wrong

[Chorus]
It's all over but the crying
Fade to black, I'm sick of trying
Took too much and now I'm done
Oh, t's all over but the crying

[Bridge]
Baby, we're done
If I could, I would, I'd change everything
'Cause I can't forget you, though you don't believe me
Now I can't walk back, I can't leave behind
Where does it go, all the light that we had?

[Verse 3]
Everything you think you know, baby, is wrong
And everything you think you had, baby, is gone

[Outro]
Oh baby, we're done (Baby, we're done)
Baby, we're done (Baby, we're done)
Baby, we're done (Baby, we're done)
Baby, we're done (Baby, we're done)
Oh baby, we're done (Baby, we're done)
Baby, we're done (Baby, we're done)
Oh baby, we're done

Garbage is a Scottish-American Alternative rock band, formed April 8th 1994. Once producer Butch Vig decided to break out of the rock he had been producing ever since Nirvana’s Nevermind, he got together with his college/studio partners Duke Erikson and Steve Marker to write some demos that would basically be remixes in song form. Once someone commented that “it sounds like garbage”, Vig decided to embrace the name. Then they invited Scottish singer Shirley Manson after seeing her on MTV, and the band’s sound was completed with sly, dark and snarky lyrics delivered in a sultry way.

The band’s eponymous debut album was a surprise hit upon release in August 1995, selling more than 4 million copies worldwide. Follow-up Version 2.0 (1998) was equally successful, even receiving a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Then the band recorded “The World Is Not Enough” to the eponymous James Bond movie, and the record industry started to bring the band down.

Beautiful Garbage (2001) was barely promoted due to a release too close to the 9/11 attacks, and underperformed at the charts. Fourth album Bleed Like Me (2005) had a troubled production where bandmembers were frequently arguing, and eventually the album’s tour was cut short and Garbage disbanded for 2 years, only regrouped in 2007 to record new tracks for greatest hits compilation Absolute Garbage.

more tracks from the album

Absolute Garbage

From the albums

Bleed Like Me (2005)
Absolute Garbage (2007)

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