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Lick the PavementGarbage

Released: April 20, 1998

Songwriter: Steve Marker Duke Erikson Butch Vig Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Intro]
1, 2, 3, 4

[Verse 1]
You've got my number, you know what I need
And I go crazy whenever I bleed
Won't you come over? I swear I'll be nice
My girlfriend told me that you'd left your wife

[Chorus]
I'll learn to bribe, I'll learn to say please
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
I'll learn to bribe, I'll learn to say please
I like you best when you're on your knees

[Verse 2]
I know you're lonely, 'cause you're just like me
Why don't you call me? You know where I'll be

[Chorus]
I'll learn to bribe, I'll learn to say please
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
I'll learn to bribe, I'll learn to say please
I like you best when you're on your knees

[Bridge]
Do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do

[Chorus]
I'll learn to bribe, I'll learn to say please
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
I'll learn to bribe, I'll learn to say please
I like you best when you're on your knees
Do-do-do-do-do-do
When you're on your knees
Do-do-do-do
When you're on your knees
Do-do-do-do-do-do
When you're on your knees
Do-do-do-do
When you're on your knees
Do-do-do-do-do-do
When you're on your knees
Do-do-do-do

[Outro]
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me?
Oh, won't you lick the pavement for me, please?

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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