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The CreepsGarbage

Released: June 11, 2021

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Billy Bush Garbage

[Verse 1]
When I get like this, I give myself the creeps
Like a newborn cub with little shaky feet
Stumbling around, trying to find some ground
What a joke, always thrashing around
'Til I figure it out and then I choke

[Chorus]
I cannot let my feelings to keep hijacking my brain
(They've got a gun against my head)
I'm gonna think my way around this wall I cannot change
(They've got a gun against my head)
I cannot let my feelings to keep hijacking my brain
(They've got a gun against my head)
I'm gonna think my way around this wall I cannot change
(They've got a gun against my head)

[Post-Chorus]
In my head, in my head
In my head, in my head

[Verse 2]
I was so upset I saw them selling me out
Right there on Los Feliz Boulevard
They were selling me cheap out there on the street
Poster-sized, large as life
There were tears in my eyes and so I drove on by

[Chorus]
I cannot let my feelings to keep hijacking my brain (My brain)
(They've got a gun against my head)
I'm gonna think my way around this wall I cannot change (I cannot change)
(They've got a gun against my head)
I cannot let my feelings to keep hijacking my brain (My brain)
(They've got a gun against my head)
I'm gonna think my way around this wall I cannot change (I cannot change)
(They've got a gun against my head)

[Bridge]
I gotta bend or we will fall
My reality's a metaphor
Success is big and failure small
And I'm one inch shy of feeling tall

[Verse 3]
So I drove on home, my tail between my legs, hmm
I'm deadbeat tired and a bit of a mess, hmm
Feeling all refreshed and brimming with hope
All my intentions are good and then I choke

[Chorus]
I cannot let my feelings to keep hijacking my brain (My brain)
(They've got a gun against my head)
I'm gonna think my way around this wall I cannot change (I cannot change)
(They've got a gun against my head)
I cannot let my feelings to keep hijacking my brain (My brain)
(They've got a gun against my head)
I'm gonna think my way around this wall I cannot change (I cannot change)
(They've got a gun against my head)

[Post-Chorus]
In my head, in my head
In my head, in my head

[Outro]
I give myself the creeps
I give myself the creeps

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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