Garbage

Released: May 11, 2012

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Steve Marker

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Tell me, please, what little girls are made of
Sugar and spice and all things nice
But we can bleed for a whole week straight
Every month, and the pain doesn't faze us

[Chorus 1]
Do you really think we give a shit
About what you said
Or what you ever did?
Do what you want, but I'm not listening
Cause I'm not fucking about

[Verse 2]
You think you know what I can do
My virgin tongue, oh see how it fools you

[Chorus 1]
Do you really think I give a shit
About anything you said
Or what you ever did?
Say what you want, but I'm not listening
Cause I'm not fucking about

[Chorus 2]
Yeah you!
Haven't you heard?
I let you off with murder
And I've been drinking again
It helps to blot you out
Cause if I stop to think
I swear I'll lose it

[Bridge]
Watch me cutting every string
One by one (one by one)
See me cut out all the rot
Bit by bit (bit by bit)
Watch me as I push you back
Inch by inch (inch by inch)
I push you back, boy
Inch by inch (back, boy)
(Inch by inch)

[Chorus 2]
Yeah you!
Haven't you heard?
I let you off with murder
And I've been drinking again
It helps to blot you out
Cause if I stop to think
I swear I'll lose it

[Outro]
Tell me, please, what little girls are made of

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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