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Dog New TricksGarbage

Released: August 15, 1995

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
I wish I had not woke up today
Everyone mistakes the things you say
Take the simple truth and
Twist it all around
Make it sound important
Make it seem profound

[Chorus]
Dog new tricks
Nothing you learn will stick
Dog new tricks
You make me feel so worthless

[Verse 2]
Everyone I know has gone away
Died or left or just forgot to stay
Sometimes took for granted
Sometimes turned away
Sometimes didn't say what
I meant to say

[Chorus]
Dog new tricks
Nothing you learn will stick
Dog new tricks
You make me feel so worthless

[Post-Chorus]
Nothing you learn
Nothing you learn
Nothing you learn
Nothing you learn

[Verse 3]
I never would have pegged you
For what you have become
Everyone lies
Everyone cheats
Not like you've done

[Chorus]
Dog new tricks
Nothing you learn will stick (nothing will stick)
Dog new tricks
You make me feel so worthless (nothing will stick)
Dog new tricks (nothing will stick)
Nothing you learn will stick (nothing will stick)
Dog new tricks (nothing will stick)
You make me feel so worthless (nothing will stick)

[Outro]
Nothing you learn
Nothing you learn
Nothing you learn
Nothing you learn

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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