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The Trick Is to Keep BreathingGarbage

Released: February 15, 1999

Songwriter: Shirley Manson Butch Vig Steve Marker Duke Erikson

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
She's not the kind of girl
Who likes to tell the world
About the way she feels about herself

She takes a little time
In making up her mind
She doesn't want to fight against the tide

[Chorus]
Lately, I'm not the only one
I say, never trust anyone
Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around?

[Verse 2]
Can't bear to face the truth
So sick he cannot move
And when it hurts he takes it out on you

[Chorus]
Lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone
Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around?

[Post-Chorus]
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing

[Verse 3]
She knows the human heart
And how to read the stars
Now everything's about to fall apart

[Chorus]
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around?
(The trick is to keep breathing)
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
(The trick is to keep breathing)
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around?

[Outro]
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing

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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