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Released: July 6, 1998

Songwriter: Steve Marker Butch Vig Duke Erikson Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
Handcuffed in the present tense
Variations on your violence
Mind games and pretty girls
A cracked song in the universe
I think it's time that I showed you what I'm made of
I'm afraid there is so much to be afraid of
I kill the fire so I don't get burned
Kill the fire and you won't get burned

[Verse 1]
Deadwood, if you care to listen
It's the same but there's something missing
It wears me out
Stripped bare I'm the same old savage
How in His name did we ever manage?
It's not enough

[Pre-Chorus]
Look me in the eye
I'm about to dive
Can you live your life without me?

[Chorus]
I don't need you anymore
I can't use you anymore
Killing the fire and you kill my desire
I don't need you anymore

[Verse 2]
Loud and clear but you still don't get it
I call you up and then I'll regret it
It gets me down
You want the truth but you look right through it
Deadwood but you hold on to it
It's such a shame

[Pre-Chorus]
Look me in the eye
I'm about to dive
Can you live your life without me?

[Chorus]
I don't need you anymore
I can't use you anymore
Killing the fire and you kill my desire
I don't need you anymore

[Bridge]
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes baby in a golden carriage
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes baby in a golden carriage

[Chorus]
I don't need you anymore
I can't use you anymore
Killing the fire and you kill my desire
Killing the fire and you kill my desire
Killing the fire and you kill my desire
Killing the fire and you kill my desire

[Outro]
Symptomatic of what we've become
I used to think you were the only one
Symptomatic of what we've become
I used to think you were the only one

[Bridge]
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes baby in a golden carriage
Then comes loneliness
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes baby in a golden carriage
Then comes loneliness

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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