Garbage

Released: October 15, 2008

Songwriter: Garbage

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Was we ever so young?
We were tripping into town
Right there where Canongate meets up
With the dirty little side street
I can't remember much though I
Know we did like to shoplift
We knew our lives stretched up to the stars
And we were the masters of the universe

[Verse 2]
Were we ever really that smart?
How did we come this far?
We would go skipping over the Heart
Of the little city that shaped us
We would go leaping into the arms
Of anything that scared us
So long before we learned the law
Fearless and stupid and reckless and...

[Chorus]
Free
We were free
So free
We were free

[Bridge]
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
I was a witness to your love
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
I was a witness to your love
To your love

[Chorus]
Free
We were free
So free
We were free

We were so free
A witness to your love
We were so free
A witness to your love
We were so free
A witness to your love
We were so free
We were so free

[Outro]
You're on patrol for me
I'm on patrol for you
You're on patrol for me
I'm on patrol for you

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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