Garbage

Released: May 14, 2012

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Give me sugar, give me something sweet
I've spent a lifetime, feelin' incomplete
If I sound bitter or if I've come too late
Please reconsider, I don’t need much on my plate
Just give me sugar

[Chorus]
Don't come close, please keep at a distance
Look but don't touch till the light goes on
Sour as a lemon
Please wait at the window
Don't touch the glass till the curtain calls

Wait, wait…
Don't make me wait
Wait, wait…
Don't make me wait
Just give me sugar

[Bridge]
Give me sugar, give me, something deep
Don’t make a habit of crawling on my knees
But this is different, can't you see I'm in control
This is the moment where all your dreams have flown
Just give me sugar

Don't come close, please keep at a distance
Look but don't touch till the light goes on
Sour as a lemon
Please wait at the window
Don't touch the glass till the curtain calls

Wait, wait…
Don't make me wait
Wait, wait…
Don't make me wait
Just give me sugar

[Outro]
To hook her on
Sugar to hook her on
Some sugar to hook her on
Sugar to hook her on

Oh, won’t someone love me
Won’t someone love me
Won’t someone love me
Oh, won’t someone love me
Like you
(Sugar)
Like you
(Sugar)
Like you
(Sugar)
Like you
(Sugar)
Someone like you

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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