Garbage

Released: June 10, 2016

Songwriter: Butch Vig Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
This is my time with you, I'm not giving it back
They could break our arms but we will remain intact
You’d never had anyone make you feel so good
I can see it in your eyes when I look at you

[Chorus]
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
That I want you, ooh
I want you, I want you
I know you want me too

[Verse 2]
We're on the outside always looking in
You don't trust humans and I feel the same

[Chorus]
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
That I want you, ooh
I want you, I want you
I know you want me too

[Bridge]
Let's give 'em something to remember
Something to talk about
On their telephones
On their couch at home
Make me shake, make me tremble
We can be animals
Our secret universe, a place to be us

[Verse 3]
This is my time with you, I'm not giving it back
They could break our arms but we will remain intact

[Chorus]
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell
It's in our eyes but we never tell

[Outro]
Let's give 'em something to remember
Something to talk about
Let's give 'em something to remember
Something to talk about

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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