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Use MeGarbage

Released: January 1, 2001

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Use me, I'm beautiful
Take me, I'm yours
Hurt me, it feels like medicine
And all I deserve

People have funny things
Swimming inside
They swing like pendulums
They turn like the tides

[Chorus]
Darling, I don't need money
I could be happy with someone to love

[Verse 2]
Oh what a crazy time
I've been a fool
On a wild ride to oblivion
I lost my mind

But with you, it's understood
You make me feel strong
Your arms look so powerful
When they hold me down

[Chorus]
Darling, I don't need money
I could be happy with someone to love

[Bridge]
Everyone looks dangerous
And no one keeps their promises
And I am always running
And you have your dark places

Regretting, feeling
Remembering something
We never said (regretting)
We wish we said (something)
We should have said (regretting)
We could have said (something)

[Chorus]
Truly, I don't need money
Or strangers to love me, no diamonds and pearls
Or fast cars designed for the rock stars
I could be happy with someone to trust
Someone to love
Someone to trust

[Outro]
Use me, I'm beautiful
Take me, I'm yours

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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