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13x ForeverGarbage

Released: January 1, 1998

Songwriter: Duke Erikson Steve Marker Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
Thirteen times you fucked with my karma and thirteen times I sucked on your dogma
You taught me to hate, you taught me to crawl
You raised your hand as you raised the bottle, you knock me down but it made me stronger
The harder you hit, the harder you fall

[Pre-Chorus]
And this one's for my mother, what will I do without her?
Don't look back, don't even bother
And this one's for the father who loves his little daughter
Well here I am, don't even bother

[Chorus]
You can freak out about me
But you'd lose your mind without me
You thought you could see right through me
But it made no difference to me anyway, anyway

[Verse 2]
A free reign gave you ammunition to play the game and fuck other women
And something just snapped, and cracked in my brain
Thirteen times I sucked up inside me, the different ways that you tried to harm me
You did it once, you'll do it again

[Pre-Chorus]
And this one's for my sister, you dare to denigrate her
Don't look back, don't even bother
And this one's for my lover, the one who had to suffer
Here I am, don't even bother

[Chorus]
You can freak out about me
But you'd lose your mind without me
You thought you could see right through me
But it made no difference to me anyway, anyway
Anyway, anyway

[Outro]
Thirteen times (One)
Thirteen times (Two)
Thirteen times (Three)
Thirteen times (Four)
Thirteen times (Five)
Thirteen times (Six)
Thirteen times (Seven)
Thirteen times (Eight)

Garbage

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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