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Soldier Through ThisGarbage

Released: May 24, 1999

Songwriter: Butch Vig Duke Erikson Steve Marker Shirley Manson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
You work too hard so when you come home to me you are tired
And you don't want to talk about it, you envy my drive and how I am motivated
We'll go down to the park, check out the carnival for a while
And try to forget all about it
I'm out of control and you don't appreciate it

[Chorus]
Believe it, I need it
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it

[Verse 2]
You say I have changed, self-centered and vain
And you don't respect me for it
The world is the same so I'll play the game
And you've grown to hate me for it

So we're re-arranged, there's no one to blame
But still you resent me for it
I call all the shots, I hold all the cards
And you feel emasculated

[Chorus]
Believe it, I need it
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it
Believe it, I need it
I feel intoxicated
I love it, I want it
Don't make me leave you for it

[Outro]
How do we reconcile this?
How do we reconcile this?
How do we reconcile this?
How do we reconcile this?

We're able to soldier through this
We're able to soldier through this
We're able to soldier through this
We're able to soldier through this

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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