Garbage

Released: May 14, 2012

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Look at you, an accident of drinking
What a mess, a train wreck of lipstick
What a joke, but do you hear me laughing?
Get out my face before I lose my patience
Now me and you, let's cut this party
Oh little boy, it takes a lot to shake me
So shake it

[Chorus]
It's the battle in me
It's the battle in you
It's the battle in me
It's the battle in you

[Verse 2]
It's a bloody war of attrition
Let's see which one of us is going to last the night
Cause I have all of my wits around me
And I'll be damned if I'm done
"White Rabbit" plays right when the room starts spinning
Make it hard, I want something to happen
So make it happen

[Chorus]
It's the battle in me
It's the battle in you
It's the battle in me
It's the battle in you

[Bridge]
Let's take a torch
To the past and the future
And let's make out
I won't tell your girlfriend
See how it feels with a passion burning
We'll be damned when we're done

[Interlude]
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off
Shake it, shake it off

[Chorus]
Cause it's the battle in you
It's the battle in me
Cause it's the battle in you
It's the battle in me

[Outro]
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off
Shake it, shake it
Shake it off

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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