Garbage

Released: May 14, 2012

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
The world might end, the night might fall
Rain on down and cover us all
And drown us with the burdens of our sins
Maybe I'll look you in the eye
Tell you "you don't wanna die"
Maybe I'll hold my breath and jump right in
Maybe I'll hold my breath and jump right in

[Verse 1]
I never saw you coming from inside my little prison
Your autograph would really buy me time
If you think you are the reason
Give me something to believe in
It's always darkest right before the dawn
It's always darkest right before the dawn

[Chorus]
I confess I've lost control
I let my guard down
I let the truth out
Oh I confess I've lost control
I let my guard down
I let the truth out

[Verse 2]
A final celebration
A bad hallucination
Flip a coin and see which way I fall
The charlatan is singing
We love to watch him killing
And suffer through a never ending day
Suffer through a never ending day

[Chorus]
I can feel I've lost control
I let my guard down
I let the truth out
Oh I can feel I've lost control
You let your guard down
You let the truth out

[Bridge]
I was trapped like a prisoner in my skin
I was punished like an animal for my sins
I was bound and I was caged and I was tricked
And I was suffocating
I was suffocating

[Chorus]
I can feel I've lost control
Oh I concede we've lost control
I was suffocating
I confess I've lost control
And I was suffocating
I was suffocating
I concede we've lost control
Feel my hunger
Feel my hunger

[Outro]
I was suffocating

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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