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My Lover’s BoxGarbage

Released: August 15, 1995

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Butch Vig

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
Go!

[Verse 1]
My lover's charms
Are in a box
Beneath my bed
And piece by piece
I'll cherish them
Until the end

[Chorus]
Send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of Heaven
Send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to Heaven

[Verse 2]
They burn my hands
Scar my face
And blind my eyes
I'll steal your breath
And throw away
What I despise

[Chorus]
Send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of Heaven
Send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to Heaven

[Verse 3]
Between these walls
And darkened halls
I've done my time
If I should die
Before I wake
Then you'll know why

[Chorus]
Send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of Heaven
Send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to Heaven (Piece by piece)
Send me an angel to love (Piece by piece)
I need to feel a little piece of Heaven (Piece by piece)
Send me an angel to love (Piece by piece)
I'm afraid I'll never get to Heaven (Piece by piece)

[Outro]
Piece by piece
Piece by piece
Piece by piece (Send me an angel)
Piece by piece (Send me an angel)
Piece by piece (Send me an angel)
Piece by piece (Send me an angel)

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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