Garbage

Released: May 14, 2012

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Your words are pretty but I already know who you are
I knew you before you met me, long before we would part
Before you tricked me and laid on my bones
Before you kissed me and buried my hope
Before you stole my spirit and rode the show into the wall

[Verse 2]
Shore you up
They lay all their dreams on you
They let you in and you start to believe you're soft as a miracle

[Pre-Chorus]
Unfurled, I was new and unfurled
Innocent and open as any lamb and hoping for paradise

[Chorus]
Yeah I hate love
Yeah I hate love
So I hate love
Yeah I hate love

[Verse 3]
Love leaves you desperate and feeling a fool
Love makes you ruthless and love makes you cruel
And love makes you crazy with nothing but lies
Love promises nothing and then your love dies

[Pre-Chorus]
Unfurled, I was new and unfurled
Innocent and open as any lamb and hoping for paradise

[Chorus]
Yeah I hate love
Yeah I hate love
So I hate love
Yeah I hate love

[Outro]
(Hey, it's me. Call me)
Then your love dies
(It's 2 AM, where are you?)
Then your love dies
(Where are you?)
Then your love dies
(Can you call me? Can you call me back?)

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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