~główna~Garbage~Version 2.0~beautifulgarbage~Bleed like me~b-side'y~

01. Supervixen
02. Queer
03. Only happy when it rains
04. As heaven is wide
05. Not my idea
06. A stroke of luck
07. Vow
08. Stupid girl
09. Dog new tricks
10. My lover's box
11. Fix me now
12. Milk

Supervixen

come down to my house
stick a stone in your mouth
you can always pull out
if you like it too much

make a whole new religion:
a falling star
that you cannot live without
and I'll feed your obsession
there'll be nothing but this
thing that you'll never doubt

a hit is hard to resist
and I never miss
I can take you out
with just a flick of my wrist

make a whole new religion:
a falling star
that you cannot live without
and I'll feed your obsessions
there is nothing but this
thing that you'll never doubt
this thing you'll never doubt

and I'll feed your obsession
the falling star
that you cannot live without
I will be your religion
this thing you'll never doubt
you're not the only one
you're not the only one

bow down to me
bow down to me

bow down to me (now I want it too much)
(now I want it to stop)
(now I'm lucky like a falling star that fell over me)
bow down to me (now I want it to much)
(now I want it to stop)
(now I'm lucky like a falling star that fell over me)

bow down to me (now I want it too much)
(now I want it to stop)
(now I'm lucky like a falling star that fell over me)
bow down to me (now I want it to much)
(now I want it to stop)
(now I'm lucky like a falling star that fell over me)

(now I want it too much) bow down to me
(now I want it to stop)

długość: 3:55
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promo
creditsy z okładki:
"Bass: Mike Kashou"
Shirley: "the song's all about saying "idolise me, I'm going to give you everything you want, but you have to do something in return." It's a bargaining song about a relationhip. I'm not saying "I'm a wee Scottish lass fae Edinburgh and I'm great" -- It's actually about this supervixen, this Russ Meyer-type woman" ("Modern life is rubbish" by Steven Daly, The Face 9'96).

~do góry~

Queer

hey boy, take a look at me
let me dirty up your mind
I'll strip away your hard veneer
and see what I can find

the queerest of the queer
the strangest of the strange
the coldest of the cool
the lamest of the lame
the numbest of the dumb
I hate to see you here
you choke behind a smile
a fake behind the fear
the queerest of the queer

this is what he pays me for
I'll show you how it's done
you learn to love the pain you feel
like father, like son

the queerest of the queer
hide inside your head
the blindest of the blind
the deadest of the dead
you're hungry 'cause you starve
while holding back the tears
choking on your smile
a fake behind the fear
the queerest of the queer

I know what's good for you
(you can touch me if you want)
I know you're dying to
(you can touch me if you want)
I know what's good for you
(you can touch me if you want)
but you can't stop

the queerest of the queer
the strangest of the strange
the coldest of the cool
the lamest of the lame
the numbest of the dumb
I hate to see you here
you choke behind a smile
a fake behind the fear

the queerest of the queer
the strangest of the strange
the coldest of the cool
you're nothing special here
a fake behind the fear
the queerest of the queer

I know what's good for you
I know you're dying to
I know what's good for you
I bet you're dying to

you can touch me if you want
you can touch me if you want
you can touch me
you can touch me
you can't stop

długość: 4:36
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creditsy z okładki:
"Additional drums: Clyde Stubblefield
Bass: Mike Kashou
Clarinet: Les Thimmig
Loop: from Man od Straw by Single Gun Theory, appears courtesy of Nettwerk/IRS Records"

~do góry~

Only happy when it rains

I'm only happy when it rains
I'm only happy when it's complicated
and though I know you can't appreciate it
I'm only happy when it rains
you know I love it when the news is bad
why it feels so good to feel so sad
I'm only happy when it rains

pour your misery down
pour your misery down on me
pour your misery down
pour your misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains
I feel good when things are going wrong
I only listen to the sad, sad songs
I'm only happy when it rains

I only smile in the dark
my only comfort is the night gone black
I didn't accidentally tell you that
I'm only happy when it rains
you'll get the message by the time I'm through
when I complain about me and you
I'm only happy when it rains

pour your misery down
pour your misery down on me
pour your misery down
pour your misery down on me

pour your misery down
pour your misery down on me
pour your misery down

you can keep me company
as long as you don't care

I'm only happy when it rains
you wanna hear about my new obsession?
I'm riding high upon a deep depression
I'm only happy when it rains

pour some misery down on me
I'm only happy when it rains
pour some misery down on me
I'm only happy when it rains

pour some misery down on me
I'm only happy when it rains
pour some misery down on me
I'm only happy when it rains

pour some misery down on me
pour some misery down on me
pour some misery down on me
pour some misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains
pour some misery down on me
pour some misery down on me
pour some misery down on me
pour some misery down on me

długość: 3:56
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creditsy z okładki:
"Percussion: Pauli Ryan
Bass: Mike Kashou"
Butch: "On something like 'Only Happy When It Rains' there's a clean rhythm and a couple of distorted rhythm guitars, three or four backwards tracks, an acoustic, some lead things that Duke dropped in, and these 'stun' guitars that Steve played in the chorus with single-note riffs. There's a sequenced guitar in the second verse and the end of the song. For that, the drums triggered a gate that opened up the guitar. Hopefully it all fits together and makes some kind of sense as a song! We felt at some points that we were in danger of overproducing the record to a certain extent, but we decided to err on the side of going to far with it. Luckily, Shirley's voice allowed us to really overdo it in spots and try to push it sonically as far as we could".

~do góry~

As heaven is wide

nothing that you say will release you
nothing that you pray will forgive you
nothing's what your words mean to me
something that you did will destroy me
something that you said will stay with me
long after you're dead and gone

if flesh could crawl
my skin would fall from
off my bones and
run away from here

as far from God
as Heaven is wide
as far from God
as angels can fly

if holy is as holy does
this house would burn straight down to hell
take it's conscience with it
as it falls

nothing said could change the fact
my trust was blind
you broke the pact
if God's my witness, God must be blind

if flesh could crawl (I wish)
my skin would fall from (I wish)
off my bones and (I wish)
run away from here (I wish)

as far from God
as Heaven is wide
as far from God
as angels can fly

(I wish)
(I wish)
(I wish)
(I wish)

take it back, I dare you, take it back
no you can't? you should have thought of that
what's inside a man
that goes so wrong?

choke on guilt that's far too good for you
say one word, I'll laugh and bury you
leave you in the place
where you left me

if flesh could crawl (I wish)
my skin would fall from (I wish)
off my bones and (I wish)
run away from here (I wish)

as far from God
as Heaven is wide
as far from God
as angels can fly

I wish I could fly
as angels can fly

(I wish)
(I wish)

długość: 4:44 (w rzeczywistości ścieżka na płycie trwa 4:52)
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creditsy z okładki:
"Fuzz bass: Mike Kashou"
Butch: "when we were working on 'As Heaven is Wide,' it started out more as a big rock track. Steve had all these guitars on it, Duke had fuzz bass, I had a live, big room drum sound on it and Shirley sang and we kind of put it away for a while. Then, one day Duke and Steve came in and erased everything and put all these techno elements on it". Shirley: "do you remember when that was? That's when we heard Tom Jones on the radio and I said that's what we should do, we should make it more electronic. That's what was wrong with it, it lacked a sort of power. And taking away the really mental guitars, it made it weirder and then you two..." Duke: "we started messing around with different beats and at one point Shirley comes running into the room and yells, 'That's it, do that!'". Butch: "even though Shirley had sung to this vocal rock track, her vocal was way more intense being sung over this electronic techno groove track. The only thing left from that original recording is Duke's fuzz bass and Shirley's vocal. We erased everything else. And it really worked". Shirley: "and it's weird, because it makes the track much harder sounding by taking away the guitars. They were really loud and crunchy and we put a little inoffensive keyboards on it and it ROCKS! It's so weird" ("Garbage Rise From The House That Grunge Built" by Gil Kaufman, Addicted to Noise).

~do góry~

Not my idea

I bit my tongue and stood in line
with not much to believe in
I bought into what I was sold
and ended up with nothing

this is not my idea of a good time
this is not my idea of a good time
this is not my idea of a good time
this is not my idea

you thought that I would never see
what was meant for you was meant for me
I was distracted at the time
forget about yours, now what about mine?

this is not my idea of a good time (this is not my idea)
this is not my idea of a good time (this is not my idea)
this is not my idea of a good time (this is not my idea)
this is not my idea (this is not my idea)

you thought I was a little girl
you thought I was a little mouse
you thought you'd take me by surprise
now I'm here burning down your house

this is not my idea of a good time (this is not my idea)
this is not my idea of a good time (this is not my idea)
this is not my idea of a good time (this is not my idea)
this is not my idea (this is not my idea)

długość: 3:41
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creditsy z okładki:
"Additional drums: Clyde Stubblefield
Percussion: Pauli Ryan
Bass: Mike Kashou
Loop: from Headless Chickens, courtesy Flying Nun"

~do góry~

A stroke of luck

hanging by threads of palest silver
I could have stayed that way forever
bad blood and ghost wrapped tight around me
nothing could ever seem to touch me

I lose what I love most
did you know I was lost until you found me?

stroke of luck or gift from God?
hand of fate or devil's claws?
from below or saints above?
you came to me

here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
it's falling down and all around me
falling

you say that you'll be there to catch me
or will you only try to trap me?
these are the rules I make
our chains were meant to break
you'll never change me

here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
you're falling down and all around me
falling

stroke of luck or gift from God?
hand of fate or devil's claws?
from below or saints above?
you come to me
now

don't ask me why
don't even try

stroke of luck or gift from God?
hand of fate or devil's claws?
from below or saints above?
you came to me

here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
it's falling down and all around me
falling

falling
falling
falling
falling

falling
falling
falling
falling

falling
falling
falling

długość: 4:44 (ścieżka na płycie trwa 4:43)
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Butch: "on 'Stroke Of Luck,' we again had these noise-guitar things we had done at the end of the song and they were fed into a Roland Space Echo. We were turning up the feedback and it was going 'wchhhhooooo, wchhhhooooo, wchhhhooooo.' We just let it feed back and ran that into some more effects to see what would happen. That sounded really cool so we printed it for five minutes onto analogue tape. While the Space Echo was still running, we flipped the tape over and printed it onto another track backwards. So we had two running side by side in real time, but one was running backwards. As a joke, we sent that to our management and said, 'We have a new song we're working on.' They called back a couple of days later and said, 'That's fantastic.'".
fragment artykułu "Pop and all that Junk" by Dan Dinello z Alternative Press (grudzień '95): "[...] "Stroke of Luck" originated with an accidental sample from a malfunctioning digital tape deck. "It made a random squeaky-fuzzy kind of noise that we printed on tape and played backwards," remembers Vig. "We put a drum groove underneath and Duke played an eerie organ. Shirley sang a tune over the top. It was sort of a sonic poem".

~do góry~

Vow

I can't use what I can't abuse
and I can't stop when it comes to you
you burned me out, but I'm back at your door
like Joan of Arc coming back for more

I nearly died
I nearly died
I nearly died

I came to cut you up
I came to knock you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to shut you up
I came to drag you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
and break your soul apart

ah, you burn and burn to get under my skin
you've gone too far, now I won't give in
you crucified me, but I'm back in your bed
like Jesus Christ coming back from the dead

I nearly died
I nearly died
I nearly died

I came to knock you up
I came to cut you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to rip you up
I came to shut you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
and break your soul apart

I nearly died
oh, I nearly died
I nearly died

I came to cut you up
I came to knock you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to shut you up
I came to suck you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
tear your little world apart
tear your little world apart
and break your soul apart

I can't stop when it comes to you
I can't stop when it comes to me
when it comes to you
when it comes to me

długość: 4:30
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Butch: "the song is about an intense relationship between a couple - showing that violence can come from a psychological standpoint rather than a physical one because it can be just as damaging" ("In The Dock" by Steve Athwal, Raw nr 183).

~do góry~

Stupid girl

you pretend you're high
you pretend you're bored
you pretend you're anything
just to be adored
and what you need
is what you get

don't believe in fear
don't believe in faith
don't believe in anything
that you can't break

you stupid girl
you stupid girl
all you had you wasted
all you had you wasted

what drives you on (drives you on)
can drive you mad (drive you mad)
a million lies to sell yourself
is all you ever had

don't believe in love
don't believe in hate
don't believe in anything
that you can't waste

you stupid girl
you stupid girl
can't believe you fake it
can't believe you fake it

don't believe in fear
don't believe in pain
don't believe in anyone
that you can't tame

you stupid girl
you stupid girl
all you had you wasted
all you had you wasted

you stupid girl
you stupid girl
can't believe you fake it
I can't believe you fake it

you stupid girl
you stupid girl
can't believe you fake it
can't believe you fake it

you stupid girl

długość: 4:18
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creditsy z okładki:
"Percussion: Pauli Ryan
Bass: Mike Kashou
Loop: from Train in Vain by The Clash, used by arrangement with Sony Music"
Butch: "as an example, take 'Stupid Girl', which started in Steve's basement. We had an Akai S1000 there and an ADAT. Steve came up with the Clash sample from 'Train In Vain' and started playing a bass line over it. While Steve was playing bass, I was manipulating the sampler and Duke was playing some of the ringy guitar riffs at the start of the song. Shirley was ad-libbing the vocals. I'm not sure what happened, but Steve tried to bounce something on the ADAT and started getting this digital feedback, this 'keeech, chhooo' kind of sound. And we thought, 'This sounds cool,' so we printed it to DAT for about ten minutes - because it seemed to be doing this kind of random thing. In the B sections of the song (after the verse), we dropped the bass out and put that sound in its place. It gave the song a real tense quality in that section, like something is being stretched. In a way it almost becomes a hook. Even though it has no real musical character, it does create tension, especially with Shirley singing high in her range at that point in the song. It made sense for us to drop the bass out and put that in its place. I don't know why".
Shirley: "God, it's about a million girls and boys that we all know. I mean, it could just as easily be called 'Stupid Boy'. It's just a song of reproach to a lot of people we know" ("Garbage Q&A" by Cathi Unsworth, Raw Magazine, marzec '96).
fragment artykułu "The Filth Amendment" by Sylvia Patterson z NME (marzec '96): "it's our version of Madonna's 'Express Yourself," grins Shirley, "about people who squander their potential. In everything. It could easily have been called 'Stupid Boy'".

~do góry~

Dog new tricks

I wish I had not woke up today
everyone mistakes the things you say
take the simple truth and
twist it all around
make it sound important
make it seem profound

dog new tricks
nothing you learn will stick
dog new tricks
you make me feel so worthless

everyone I know has gone away
died or left or just forgot to stay
sometimes took for granted
sometimes turned away
sometimes didn't say what
I meant to say

dog new tricks
nothing you learn will stick
dog new tricks
you make me feel so worthless

nothing you learn
nothing you learn
nothing you learn
nothing you learn

I never would have picked you
for what you have become
everyone lies, everyone cheats
not like you've done

dog new tricks
nothing you learn will stick (nothing you say)
dog new tricks
you make me feel so worthless (nothing you say)

dog new tricks (nothing you say)
nothing you learn will stick (nothing you say)
dog new tricks (nothing you say)
you make me feel so worthless (nothing you say)

nothing you learn
nothing you learn
nothing you learn
nothing you learn

długość: 3:56 (ścieżka na płycie - 3:57)
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~do góry~

My lover's box

go!

my lover's charms
are in a box
beneath my bed
and piece by piece
I'll cherish them
until the end

send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of heaven
send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to heaven

they burn my hands
scar my face
and blind my eyes
I'll steal your breath
and throw away
what I despise

send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of heaven
send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to heaven

between these walls
and darkened halls
I've done my time
if I should die
before I wake
then you'll know why

send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of heaven
send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to heaven (piece by piece)

send me an angel to love (piece by piece)
I need to feel a little piece of heaven (piece by piece)
send me an angel to love (piece by piece)
I'm afraid I'll never get to heaven (piece by piece)

(piece by piece)
(piece by piece)

send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel (piece by piece)
send me an angel

długość: 3:55
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creditsy z okładki:
"Percussion: Pauli Ryan"

~do góry~

Fix me now

things don't have to be this way
catch me on a better day

bury me above the clouds
all the way from here
take away the things I need
take away my fear
hide me in a hollow sound
happy ever more
everything I had to give
gave them long before

fix me now I wish you would (fix me now)
bring me back to life (fix me now)
kiss me blind somebody should (fix me now)
from hollow into light

crashing silent, broken down
falling into night
who give up and who give in
I'll go without a fight
cut me down or cut me dead
cut me in or out
kiss me blind time after time
take away my doubt

fix me now I wish you would (fix me now)
bring me back to life (fix me now)
kiss me blind somebody should (fix me now)
from hollow into light

things don't have to be this way
catch me on a better day

nowhere only down from here
pick me off the floor
take away the things I dream
one time
one place
one more

fix me now I wish you would (fix me now)
bring me back to life (fix me now)
kiss me blind somebody should (fix me now)
from hollow into

fix me now I wish you would (fix me now)
bring me back to life (fix me now)
kiss me blind somebody should
from hollow into light

things don't have to be this way
catch me on a better day
things don't have to be this way
catch me on a better day
things don't have to be this way
catch me on a better day
things don't have to be this way
catch me on a better day

długość: 4:43
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~do góry~

Milk

I am milk
I am red hot kitchen
and I am cool
cool as the deep blue ocean

I am lost
so I am cruel
but I'd be love and sweetness
if I had you

I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you
I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you

I am weak
but I am strong
I can use my tears to
bring you home

I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you
I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you
I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you

I am milk
I am red hot kitchen
and I am cool
cool as the deep blue ocean

I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you
I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you
I'm waiting
I'm waiting for you
I'm aching
I'm aching for you

I'm waiting
I'm waiting
I'm waiting
for you

długość: 3:53 (w rzeczywistości 3:54)
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singiel
creditsy z okładki:
"Bass: Mike Kashou"

~do góry~