Garbage

Released: April 19, 2014

Songwriter: Butch Vig Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything

[Verse]
Oh, the world is rough
Its jaws crack open it will swallow you right up
The moment you're awake
The clock is ticking and it won't stop, it don't stop

[Refrain]
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything

[Bridge]
I am ready for the last fight, the last fight
The last fight, the last fight
The last fight, the last fight

I am not shaking in my shoes
I am not waving in the wind
(Tick tock, tick tock)
I am not waving in the wind

[Refrain]
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything
Time will destroy everything

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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