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Flipping the BirdGarbage

Released: June 11, 2020

Songwriter: Shirley Manson Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig

Producer: Billy Bush Garbage

[Verse 1]
I stopped listening to you years ago
You always think that you know best, I know
I hear you explain things from the other room (The other room)
You spread your legs and you gesticulate

[Chorus]
You tell me who you think I am (You tell me, you tell me)
And I agree with you, but deep inside (You tell it)
I am flipping you the bird again (You tell me)
Seek long enough and ye shall find, my friend (You tell me, you tell it)

[Verse 2]
I am hungry, but I learned long ago (So long ago)
You don't eat the hand that feeds, I know
I eat my anger 'cause I am angry, man
I smile and say you're right because I can

[Bridge]
You try to lovе (You try to love)
But you're too far gone (Hard to lovе)
Inside (You're hard to love)
Your own self-worth (You're hard to love)
It died inside (You're hard to love)

[Chorus]
You tell me who you think I am (You tell me, you tell me)
And I agree with you, but deep inside (You tell it)
I am flipping you the bird again (You tell me)
Seek long enough and ye shall find, my friend (You tell me, you tell it)

[Post-Chorus]
You tell me
You tell me

[Outro]
I stole your jacket (I stole your jacket)
Because you're meek (Because you're meek)
The one who asks (The one who asks)
Will not receive (Will not receive)
Because you're meek
Flipping the bird
Flipping the bird
Flipping the bird

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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