Garbage

Released: April 11, 2005

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Steve Marker

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night

[Verse 1]
They know best how they can mess with us
Nursing an opinion's getting dangerous
And in a world where good's not good enough
Let's get loaded and kick up a fuss

[Chorus]
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night

Is there anybody else?
Anybody else?
Is there anybody else?
Anybody else?

[Verse 2]
What a mess we've made, it's ridiculous
The whole wide world's a stage of complete chaos
It's gets so funny that we get confused
We don't know where to turn cause we've all been used

[Chorus]
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night

Is there anybody else?
Anybody else?
Is there anybody else?
Anybody else?

[Bridge]
Let's get loaded
(Oh, let's be selfish)
Let's get wasted
(And lose our senses)
Let's get shit faced
(So we can fake it)
Let's get stupid
(Just entertain us)
Let's get wicked
(Desensitize us)
Let's get toasted
(Don't educate us)
Let's get hammered
(Yeah, paralyze us)
Let's forget it
(Don't count on all)

[Chorus]
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night

I'm sick, sick, sick of doing nothing
Sick, sick, sick of saying nothing
I'm sick, sick, sick of doing nothing
I'm sick, sick, sick of saying nothing
So let's get loaded

[Outro]
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys

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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