Garbage

Released: January 1, 2005

Songwriter: Butch Vig Shirley Manson Steve Marker Duke Erikson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
You don't even know my name
You've got me on a ball and chain
When you gonna notice me?
God, you're such a little tease

[Pre-Chorus]
When you gonna finally land it on my lips?
When you gonna give me just a little sip?

[Chorus]
You're a honeybee
Honeybee
Honeybee
You're killing me

[Verse 2]
You don't even know my name
I guess I ought to be ashamed
Going on the way I do
Watching you in everything

[Pre-Chorus]
When you gonna give me just a little kick?
Music in your heart and lying on your lips

[Chorus]
You're a honeybee
Honeybee
Honeybee
You're killing me

[Bridge]
Oh, oh, oh, oh
It's hard to stumble in your harmonies
But just like nicotine and it gets complicated
You keep on pouring on the gasoline
And it's the sweetest feeling
Oh it gets me, gets me down

[Verse 3]
You don't even know my name
How am I gonna reign you in?
Trample on everything you see
You don't own everything

[Pre-Chorus]
When you gonna give me just a little hit?
When you gonna give me just a little bit?

[Chorus]
You're a honeybee
Honeybee
Oh, honeybee
It's killing me
You're killing me
My honeybee
You're killing me
My honeybee
It's killing me

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.

more tracks from the album

Run Baby Run - EP

From the albums

Sex Is Not the Enemy - Single (2005)
Run Baby Run - EP (2005)

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