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DumbGarbage

Released: May 11, 1998

Songwriter: Butch Vig Shirley Manson Steve Marker Duke Erikson

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
I never claimed to be your saviour
I said I had a dirty mouth
Stop analysing my behaviour
If you're too dumb to work it out

I've got to keep myself together
You know I hate to disappoint
A masochistic lamb to slaughter
Maybe you miss the point?

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm feeling small
I'm climbing the walls
I don't let it show

[Chorus]
Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could let it go
You'll never come sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

[Verse 2]
Maybe I could write a letter
To help me with my self-esteem
You should get to know me better
No one's ever what they seem

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm feeling small
I'm climbing the walls
I don't let it show

[Chorus]
Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could let it go
You'll never come sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

[Bridge]
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you need from me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you think of me

[Chorus]
Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could let it go
You'll never come sucking your thumb
Better off dumb
Now that you know what you know
You're going to reap what you sow
Nothing will come sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

[Outro]
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you need from me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what you think of me
You still don't know what I think of me
You still don't know what you think of me

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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