Garbage

Released: May 11, 2012

Songwriter: Steve Marker Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
From the beginning
We were always going to fail
We were the next thing
That the world could not wait to tear down

[Pre-Chorus]
Off balance in our own minds
Off balance in the ways we looked to everybody else
On and on all summer long, we never stood a chance

[Chorus]
Shine bright tonight
Live forever always bright tonight
You be who you are
You be who you are forever
You be who you are
You're my brightest star across the sky
You're bright tonight

[Verse 2]
It was right now
And then suddenly it's gone
We were both wrong
But here we are, we're right where we belong

[Pre-Chorus]
Off balance in our own lives
Off balance in the ways we looked to everybody else
On and on all summer long, we never stood a chance

[Chrous]
Shine bright tonight
Live forever always bright tonight
Yeah, you
You be who you are
You be who you are forever
You be who you are
You're my brightest star across the sky
You're bright tonight

[Outro]
You're bright tonight
You're bright tonight
You're bright tonight
You're bright tonight
You shine tonight

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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