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Drive You HomeGarbage

Released: October 1, 2001

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Steve Marker

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
It's funny how, even now
You still support me after all the things that I've done
You're so good to me, waiting patiently
And isn't it sad that you still have to ask if I care

[Pre-Chorus]
I never said I was perfect
But I can take you away

[Chorus]
Walk on shells tonight, can't do right tonight
And you can't say a word 'cause I leap down your throat, so uptight am I

[Post-Chorus]
I never said I was perfect
But I can drive you home

[Verse 2]
I got down on myself, working too hard
Driving myself to death, trying to beat out the faults in my head
What a mess I've made, sure, we all make mistakes
But they see me so large that they think I'm immune to the pain

[Chorus]
Walk on shells tonight, can't do right tonight
And you can't say a word 'cause I leap down your throat, so uptight am I

[Post-Chorus]
I'm praying for a miracle
But I won't hold my breath
I never said I was perfect
But can you take me home

Garbage

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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