Garbage

Released: April 11, 2005

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
It's been a crazy time for us
Of pushing all our limits
Snapping necks and breaking balls
Now you'd have done the same
But you were baking biscuits
While I went, bent the law
Sacrificing something
As you counted all my flaws

[Chorus]
Why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
And walk in my shoes

[Verse 2]
You wanna live freely
Don't wanna die
You want it? You got it
You chase the high
You wanna be out there
You wanna race
You wanna take over
Just gotta play

[Chorus]
Why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
And walk in my shoes

[Bridge]
I'm a good person
Don't wanna fight with no one
But you piss me off
You keep pushing, pushing
You'd best step off the gas, boy
All bets are off, fuck you
You taste like toxic poison
I wash my hands of you

[Chorus]
Why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
So why don't you come over?
And walk in my shoes
Walk in my shoes

[Outro]
Ha!
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you come over?
Why don't you?
Cut it

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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