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The ChemicalsGarbage

Released: April 18, 2015

Featuring: Brian Aubert

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Oh Jesus wouldn't save my soul
He checked out when we lost control
The end of the world we can never save
The complicated things that drive us both insane

The ghosts in the back of your eyes
The sparks in the dark when they come alive
I give myself to a higher power
Every time they crawl inside

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I need your heaven
I need your heaven
I'll do anything you ask me to
Heaven, I need your heaven
I can't wait till the moment that I surrender to

[Chorus]
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals

[Verse 2]
Aphrodite siren smiles
She steals anything she likes
Everything you never said
Everything you never did
Everything you fantasized

The ghosts at the back of your eyes
They don't miss a beat when they come alive
Give yourself to a higher power
Every time you crawl inside

[Pre-Chorus 2]
You're seduced by
Surrendered to
Seduced by
Surrendered to

[Chorus]
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals
The chemicals, the chemicals

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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