Garbage

Released: July 16, 2007

Songwriter: Steve Marker Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
What is my day going to look like? What will my tomorrow bring me?
If I had x-ray eyes, I could see inside, I wouldn't have to predict the future
I wish that you would do with some talking, how else am I to know what you're thinking?
If only people would say what it really was, what it really was, what it really was that they wanted

[Chorus]
Tell me where it hurts, to hell with everybody else
All I care about is you and that's the truth
They don't love me, I can tell
But you do, so they can go to hell

[Verse 2]
Did they ever give you a reason, to believe in something different
If you're looking for love, for what it's worth I have plenty of it lying around here somewhere
If you are looking for disappointment you can find it around any corner
In the middle of the night I hold on to you tight so both of us can feel protected

[Chorus]
Tell me where it hurts, to hell with everybody else
All I care about is you and that's the truth
They don't love me, I can tell
But you do, so they can go to hell

[Bridge]
I've been loved but I didn't know how to feel it
And I've been adored but I don't know if I ever believed it
I've been loved my whole life but I didn't know how to take it, until you

[Chorus]
So tell me where it hurts, to hell with everybody else
All I care about is you and that's the truth
They don't like me, yeah I can tell
But you do, so they can go to hell
But you do, so they can go to hell

[Outro]
Tell me where it hurts
Tell me where it hurts
Tell me where it hurts now
Tell me where it hurts
Tell me where it hurts
Tell me where it hurts, you now

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.

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