Released: May 19, 2021

Songwriter: Shirley Manson Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig

Producer: Billy Bush Garbage

[Verse 1]
I was busy picking up the pieces of my broken heart
I stand accused and maybe, on reflection, got a little cruel
I was too brash for you, I moved too fast, perhaps a little rude
I know I was a jerk and impolite, I was loud

[Chorus]
No one can say
That I didn't need you
That I didn't want you
That I didn't love you
No one can say
That I didn't need you
That I didn't want you
That I didn't love you

[Verse 2]
Which one of my two wolves will I give my attention to tonight?
Which one will I decide to feed? Which one will I decide to fight?
I was impulsive, I confess, talked a lot behind your back
I was judgmental, played too cool, I was not so nice

[Chorus]
No one can say
That I didn't need you
That I didn't want you
That I didn't love you
No one can say
That I didn't need you
That I didn't want you
That I didn't love you

[Bridge]
Wе were young and we lovеd attention
We were drunk and we loved attention
We were sad and we loved attention
We were scared and we loved attention
Our kind of god is a crazy kind of god
Our kind of god, he's a crazy kind of god

[Chorus]
No one can say
That I didn't need you
That I didn't want you
That I didn't love you
No one can say
That I didn't need you
That I didn't want you
That I didn't love you

[Post-Chorus]
That I didn't love you
No one can say
That I didn't love you
No one can say
No one can say
No one can say
No one can say
No one can say
No one can

[Outro]
Our kind of god is a crazy kind of god

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.