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As Heaven Is WideGarbage

Released: August 15, 1995

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Shirley Manson Butch Vig

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Nothing that you say will release you
Nothing that you pray would forgive you
Nothing's what your words mean to me

Something that you did will destroy me
Something that you said will stay with me
Long after you're dead and gone

[Pre-Chorus]
If flesh could crawl
My skin would fall
From off my bones
And run away from here

[Chorus]
As far from God
As heaven is wide
As far from God
As angels can fly

[Verse 2]
If holy is as holy does
This house will burn straight down to hell
And take its conscience with it as it falls

Nothing said could change the fact
My trust was blind, you broke the pact
If God's my witness, God must be blind

[Pre-Chorus]
If flesh could crawl
My skin would fall
From off my bones
And run away from here

[Chorus]
As far from God
As heaven is wide
As far from God
As angels can fly

[Interlude]
I wish, I wish
I wish, I wish

[Verse 3]
Take it back, I dare you, take it back
No, you can't, you should have thought of that
What's inside a man that goes so wrong?

Choke on guilt, that's far too good for you
Say one word, I'll laugh and bury you
And leave you in the place where you left me

[Pre-Chorus]
If flesh could crawl
My skin would fall
From off my bones
And run away from here

[Chorus]
As far from God
As heaven is wide
As far from God
As angels can fly

[Outro]
I wish I could fly
As angels can fly

I wish, I wish

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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