Garbage

Released: June 10, 2016

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
I was young and naive
All I wanted to do was please, please, please
But things, they change
And I'm a big girl now

[Chorus]
I'm all grown up (I'm all grown up)
No one around to fix me now (There's no one around)
So doing it my own way (I'm doing it, I'm doing it)
I'm changing things up like I'm teaching little fingers to play

[Verse 2]
I've worn myself out for you
Shiny and keen for you
But things, they change
And I'm a big girl now (I'm a big girl)

[Chorus]
I'm all grown up (I'm all grown up)
No one around to fix me now (There's no one around)
So doing it my own way (I'm doing it, I'm doing it)
I'm changing things up like I'm teaching little fingers to play

[Bridge]
Nothing ever stays the same
Youth and beauty don't remain
The wise, they say: "adapt or die"
If you don't grow, you'll calcify
But you're too scared to try
But things, they change (they change and)
And I'm a big girl now (I'm a big girl)

[Chorus]
I'm all grown up
There's no one around to fix me now
I'm all grown up
There's no one around to fix me now
I'm doing it my own way (I'm doing it, I'm doing it)
Doing it my own way (I'm doing it, I'm doing it)
Doing it my own way (I'm doing it, I'm doing it)
I'm changing things up like I'm teaching little fingers to play

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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