Garbage

Released: June 11, 2021

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Billy Bush Garbage

[Verse 1]
Spend every day wishing my life away
Always so nervous and unsure of myself
Always the bridesmaid and never the bride
Always the wallflower, never the sport star
Wanted their body, wanted their hair
Wanted the way that they walked straight ahead of me
Didn't know then what I think I know now
Wanted their confidence, wanted their love

[Chorus]
Uncomfortably here, uncomfortably there
Uncomfortably me, uncomfortably me
Uncomfortably hеre, uncomfortably there
Uncomfortably mе, uncomfortably me

[Verse 2]
I hated the way that I spoke from the place
Where I was born and where I came from
Hated myself when she wasn’t around
I miss the way she'd throw her head back and laugh at me

[Chorus]
Uncomfortably here, uncomfortably there
Uncomfortably me, uncomfortably me
Uncomfortably here, uncomfortably there
Uncomfortably me, uncomfortably me

[Bridge]
My hands would shake, I would sweat
Always trying hard to impress
Wish I told them all, "Go to hell"
But I never had the common sense, too busy hating on myself
A waste of time, a waste of space

[Chorus]
Uncomfortably here, uncomfortably there
Uncomfortably me
Uncomfortably here, uncomfortably there
Uncomfortably me

[Post-Chorus]
Uncomfortably me
Uncomfortably me

[Outro]
Uncomfortable, uncomfortable
Uncomfortable, uncomfortable
Uncomfortable, uncomfortable
Uncomfortable, uncomfortable

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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