Garbage

Released: May 11, 2012

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Steve Marker

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Felt sure you felt something
Felt sure, but it really was nothing
You felt, but you're only guessing

[Hook]
They're only feelings, baby
They're only feelings

[Verse 2]
Felt I'd left you hanging
Felt sure I'd stopped myself caring
You felt, that I'd stopped believing

[Hook]
They're only feelings, baby
They're only feelings

[Breakdown]
What is real?
Is real reason?
What is real?
Is real reason?
What is real?
Is real reason?
What is real?
I still get you
Do you still get me?

[Verse 3]
Felt my skin on your skin
Felt sure, sensations like raining
You felt, no logical thinking

[Hook]
They're only feelings, baby
They're only feelings

[Outro]
Oh-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
Oh-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
Oh-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
Oh-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
Oh-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo

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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