Garbage - Song Lyrics

"Shut Your Mouth"

Welcome
We love you
We hate you
We love you
We want you
We need you
We wish we were like you
They say you?re a saint
You?re a whore
You?re a sinner
That he had you
He made you
He can?t live without you
Would you confess if we asked
That you nurture the urge
To declare that it?s time
To settle down
With a man of your own
You want a baby
A family
A piece of security

Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Just shut your mouth

What?s your opinion of the dire situation
In our land here
Our guest here
Of course you?ll be nice here
How do you feel about God and religion
Are you good people
Bad people
Guess it doesn?t matter people
Your place
My place
Make her bring that famous face
You got some
You want some
You wanna let me get you some
We know your music but of course we?d never buy it
It?s too fake man
Right man!
(We don?t give a fucking damn)

Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it

I hear you say it
Play it smart girl
Win the game love
Give?em what they want
What they want to see and you could be a big star
You could go far
Make a landmark
What have you been reading you smart girl?
Win the game love
Give?em what they want
What they want to see and you could be a big star
You could go far
Make a landmark
Make a shitload

And the world spins by
With everybody moaning
Pissing, bitching and everyone is shitting
On their friends
On their love
On their oaths
On their honor
On their graves
On their mouths
And their words say nothing

Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Shut your mouth
Try not to panic
Just shut your mouth
If you can do it
Just shut your mouth

I wanted to say something
Oh shut your mouth
I wanted to say something
Just shut your mouth
I wanted to say something
Oh shut your mouth
I wanted to be something
Just shut your mouth

"Androgyny"

When everything is going wrong
And you can?t see the point of going on
Nothing in life is set in stone
There?s nothing that can?t be turned around

Nobody wants to be alone
Everybody wants to love someone
Out of the tree go pick a plum
Why can?t we all just get along

Boys
Boys in the girl?s room
Girls
Girls in the men?s room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys
Boys in the parlor
Girls
They?re getting harder
I?ll free your mind in your androgyny

No sweeter a taste that you could find
Than fruit hanging ripe upon the vine
There?s never been an oyster so divine
A river deep that never runs dry

What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need
What you need

The birds and the bees they hum along
Like treasure they twinkle in the sun
Get on board and have some fun
Take what you need to turn you on

Boys
Boys in the girl?s room
Girls
Girls in the men?s room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys
Boys in the parlor
Girls
They?re getting harder
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your

Boys
Behind closed doors and under stars
Girls
It doesn?t matter where you are
Boys
Collecting jewels that catch your eyes
Girls
Don?t let a soulmate pass you by

Boys in the girl?s room
Girls in the men?s room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys in the parlor
They?re getting harder
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your mind

Boys in the girl?s room
Girls in the men?s room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys in the parlor
They?re getting harder
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your mind
I?ll free your

Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls

"Til the Day I Die"

I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die

You walked into the room
The sun hit my eyes
The force you struck me down caught me by surprise
You sprung the mojo and it worked like a charm
I felt invincible with you in my arms

I must confess it can feel good to feel pain
Like breaking waves or getting caught in the rain
Playing those games cause we had nothing to do
I was oblivious I was losing to you

I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die

Holy Jesus
Holy rock?n?roll
The more I gave to you the more you grew bored
And making love became the waging of war
No peace
No tenderness
No fun anymore

I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die
I will love you till the day that I die

I dreamt that I called out your name
You turned your face to me and started to say
Something so beautiful it hurt deep inside
So I will love you till the day that I die

Farewell
Farewell
I?m sure gonna leave you (I will love you till the day that I die)
Farewell
Farewell
I?m sure gonna leave you (I will love you till the day that I die)
Farewell
Farewell (I will love you till the day that I die)
I?m sure gonna leave you (I will love you till the day that I die)
Farewell
Farewell (I will love you till the day that I die)
I?m sure gonna leave you (I will love you till the day that I die)
Farewell
Farewell (I will love you till the day that I die)
I?m sure gonna leave you (I will love you till the day that I die)
Farewell
Farewell (I will love you till the day that I die)
I?m sure gonna leave you

"Can't Cry These Tears"

I just don愒 care anymore
I扉e reached the end of the rope
I just don愒 care anymore
Won愒 cry these tears anymore

Can愒 find it in the bible
Can愒 find it on t.v.
Can愒 find it in diamonds
There愀 something inside me that just went around it
Can愒 find it in music
Can愒 find it in my soul
Can愒 find it in chocolate
Oh babe I can愒 hide it
I can愒 even fight it

I just don愒 care anymore
I扉e reached the end of the rope
I just don愒 care anymore
Won愒 cry these tears anymore

There愀 no way she can kiss you the way that I do
I heard that you miss me
Oh you should be careful of whom you扉e been talking to
Ten long nights without you have taught me to be strong
I扉e cut all my losses
Think no more about it because I couldn愒 fight it

I just don愒 care anymore
I扉e reached the end of the rope
I just don愒 care anymore
Won愒 cry these tears anymore

There was a time I thought I悲 die
If you should ever leave me high and dry
And you don愒 want me anymore
It愀 time to settle the score

I just don愒 care anymore
I扉e reached the end of my temper I惴 tired of the letters
I just don愒 care anymore
Won愒 cry these tears anymore
I just don愒 care anymore
I扉e reached the end of my rope and it愀 time that I扉e taught you so
I just don愒 care anymore
Won愒 cry these tears anymore

It愀 time to settle the score

"Cup of Coffee"

You told me you don?t love me
Over a cup of coffee
And I just have to look away
A million miles between us
Planets crash into dust
I just let it fade away

I?m walking empty streets
Hoping we might meet
I see your car parked on the road
The light on at your window
I know for sure that you?re home
But I just have to pass on by

So no, of course, we can?t be friends
Not while I?m still this obsessed
I guess I always knew the score
This is how our story ends

I smoke your brand of cigarettes
And pray that you might give me a call
I lie around on bed all day just staring at the walls
Hanging round bars at night
Wishing I had never been born
And give myself to anyone who wants to take me home

So no, of course, we can?t be friends
Not while I still feel like this
I guess I always knew the score
This is where our story ends

You left behind some clothes
My belly summersaults when I pick them off the floor
My friends all say they?re worried
I?m looking far too skinny
I?ve stopped returning all their calls

And no, of course, we can?t be friends
Not while I?m still so obsessed
I want to ask where I went wrong
But don?t say anything at all

It took a cup of coffee
To prove that you don?t love me

"Silence Is Golden"

If I am silent then I am not real
If I speak up then no one will hear
If I wear a mask there?s somewhere to hide

Silence is golden
I have been broken
Safe in my own skin
So nobody wins

If I raise my voice
Will someone get hurt?
And if I can?t feel then I won?t get touched
If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide

Silence is golden
I have been broken
Safe in my own skin
So nobody wins

Silence is golden
Nobody gets in
Safe in my own skin
So nobody wins

Did you hear me speak
Do you understand
Did you hear my voice
Will you hold my hand
Do you understand me

Won?t someone listen
Nobody gets in
My body?s a temple
But nothing is simple
Silence is golden
I have been broken
Something was stolen
Safe in my own skin

"So Like A Rose"

Baby thinks he?s dying
Lost inside his bedroom
Mommy won?t stop crying
And daddy?s always working

There?s no going back
There?s no going back
There?s no going back
On this one

Baby wakes up with the sun
While everyone is sleeping
He thinks he?s going crazy
This could be the big one

There?s no going back
There?s no going back
There?s no going back

Sleeping with ghosts
It?s such a lonely experience
The stars are out tonight
Only they can hear you breathing

You?re so like a rose
You?re so like a rose
You?re so like a rose
I wish you could stay here

"Untouchable"

This is nothing new to me
It takes more than what you?ve got
To frighten me
I?m not scared of you
There’s nothing you can do
Or take from me

Untouchable
You think you?re untouchable
You know
No one’s untouchable

You?re bound to lose the game
There?s no one else to blame
You play so safe
And you?re not risking enough
You are doomed to be undone
I swear I?ll be the one
To bring you down

It’s all your fault
Cause you got caught

Untouchable
You think you?re untouchable
You know
No one’s untouchable

It must be nice
To be so sure
And never feel insecure
It must feel good to believe
You?re always right
And you?re never wrong

You?ve got something to say
You say it to my face
And be a man about it
You got a problem with me
Don?t go behind my back
Just like a baby

Untouchable (pride comes before)
You think you?re untouchable (you take a fall)
You know (you best beware)
No one’s untouchable (a woman scorned)
Untouchable (pride comes before)
You think you?re untouchable (you take a fall)
You know (you best beware)
No one’s untouchable (a woman scorned)
No one?s untouchable
You think you?re untouchable
You know, no one?s untouchable
No one?s untouchable
No one?s untouchable
No one?s untouchable
No one?s untouchable

"Nobody Loves You"

Watching the days slip by so fast
Knowing our fate has long been cast
Working our fingers to the bone
Cause nobody loves you when you?re gone, gone, gone, gone

Coughing up feeling just for you
To find something real to hold on to
But there is a hole inside my heart
Where all of my love comes pouring out

You know you?ll always be my man
But grab yourself sweetness where you can
Cause sooner or later we?re gonna die
Left to the dogs under the sky

I cracked a piece of broken glass
I cracked a piece of broken glass

Coughing up feeling just for you
To find something real to hold on to
But there is a hole inside my heart
Where waves of my love come tumbling out
You say that all the good is gone
That I have forgotten who I am
Free as a bird
Wild as the wind
But somehow I cannot let you in

"Drive You Home"

It?s funny how
Even now
You still support me after all the things that I?ve done
You?re so good to me
Waiting patienly
And isn?t it sad that you still have to ask if I care

I never said I was perfect
But I can take you away
Walk on shells tonight
Can?t do right tonight
And you can?t say a word cause I leap down your throat
So uptight am I
I never said I was perfect
But I can drive you home

I got down on myself
Working too hard
Driving myself to death
Trying to beat out the faults in my head
What a mess I?ve made
Sure we all make mistakes
But they see me so large
That they think I?m immune to the pain

Walk on shells tonight
Can?t do right tonight
And you can?t say a word cause I leap down your throat
So uptight am I
I?m praying for a miracle
But I won?t hold my breath

I never said I was perfect
But can you take me home

Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)"

She gave you everything she had
But she was young and dumb
She悲 just turned 21
She didn愒 care to hang around
So when the shit came down why she was nowhere to be found
This life can turn a good girl bad
She was the sweetest thing that you had ever seen

You愉e so such a delicate boy
In the hysterical realm
Of an emotional landslide
In physical terms

With your cherry lips and golden curls
You could make grown men gasp when you go walking past
And in your hot pants and high heels
They could not believe that such a body was for real
It seemed like rainbows would appear
Whenever you came near the clouds would disappear
Because you looked just like a girl
Your baby blues would flash and suddenly a spell was cast

You愉e so such a delicate boy
In the hysterical realm
Of an emotional landslide
In physical terms

You hold a candle in your heart
You shine the light on hidden parts
You make the whole world wanna dance
You bought yourself a second chance

Go baby go go
We愉e right behind you
Go baby go go
Yeah, we愉e looking at you
Go baby go go
Oh ,we愉e right behind you
Go baby go baby
Yeah, we愉e right behind you
Go baby go baby
Oh, we愉e right behind you
Go baby go baby
Yeah, we愉e looking at you
Go baby go baby
Oh, we愉e right behind you
Go baby go baby
Yeah, we愉e looking at you

You hold a candle in your heart
Go baby go go
You shine the light on hidden parts
Go baby go go
You make the whole world wanna dance
Go baby go go
You bought yourself a second chance
Go baby go baby go
Delicate boy
Go baby go baby go
In the hysterical realm
Go baby go baby go
Of an emotional landslide
Go baby go baby go
In physical terms
Go baby go go
Go

Yeah, we愉e looking at you
Go baby go go
Oh, we愉e right behind you

"Bad boyfriend"

I’ve got a fever
come check it and see
there’s something burning and rolling in me
we may not last but we’ll have fun till it ends
c’mon baby be my bad boyfriend

I wanna hear you call out my name
I wanna see you burn up in flames
keep you on ice so I can show all my friends
c’mon baby be my bad boyfriend

so ripe so sweet come suck it and see
but watch out daddy I sting like a bee
I know some tricks i swear will give you the bends
c’mon baby be my bad boyfriend

my fever’s rising you ran into luck
say what sugar ?
you wanna get what?
I’m wanna give you one hundred and ten
c’mon baby be my bad boyfriend

It’s wild the way you tease me
It’s wild the way you free me
It’s wild the way you reach me
wrapped me up in your wire from the start

you’ve got the women waiting in line
i’m not asking you to make up your mind
but I can make you happy at least now and then
I’ve got something special for my bad boyfriend

If you can’t love me honey go on just pretend
I’ve saved something special for the very end
If you can’t love me honey go on just pretend
c’mon baby be my bad boyfriend

"Run baby run"

love can be so strange
don’t it amaze you?
every time you give yourself away
it comes back to haunt you
love’s an elusive charm and it can be painful
to understand this crazy world
but you’re not gonna crack
no you’re never gonna crack

run my baby run my baby run
run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
to late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
so run my baby run my baby run

life can be so cruel
don’t it astound you?
so when nothing seems too certain or safe
let it burn through you
you can keep it pure on the inside
and you know what you believe to be right
so you’re not gonna crack
no you’re never gonna crack

run my baby run my baby run
run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
to late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
so run my baby run my baby run

find out who you are before you regret it
cause life is so short there’s no time to waste it

so run my baby run my baby run
run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun
to late for solutions to solve in the setting sun
so run my baby run my baby run

"Right between the eyes"

don’t care what they have to say
why you listening to them anyway?
why do you have to give them what they want?
they love to watch you as you fall apart

stick it to them like a phoenix rise
there’s nothing grander than the big surprise
they can’t hurt you with their sticks and stones
about time take them right between the eyes

seek to destroy cause they’re scared of you
that’s why they try to make a fool of you
they’re so jealous of my pretty star
cause you’ve got soul inside your shattered heart

stick it to them like a phoenix rise
there’s nothing grander than the big surprise
they can’t hurt you with their sticks and stones
about time take them right between the eyes

and you’ve been waiting all your life
to fly high into somebody else
and it’s true it’s a cruel, cruel world
life’s a bitch and then you die my love

don’t care what they have to say
you shouldn’t listen to them anyway?

stick it to them like a phoenix rise
there’s nothing grander than the big surprise
they can’t hurt you with their sticks and stones
about time take them right between the eyes

people kill to build you up
then they’ll stab you in the back like that
you know it breaks my heart
can’t see you going out like that

stay alive my love
stay alive my love
stay alive my love
stay alive my love

"Happy home"

in my happy home I barely breathe
in my lovers arms I find relief
and there’s a sky that‘s changing and a bird that sings
I never once in my wayward life was heading to run out

in my lovers arms I wait for morning
I beg my god to speak and tear me apart
I’d lay down my body I’d lay down my arms
I never once in my sweet short life meant anybody harm

in my happy home i read the signs
in my lovers arms I move in time
there’s no more crying and there’s no more lies
I never once in my sweet short life was waiting for desire

and there’s no more crying
and there’s no more pain
I never thought for one second I’d have nothing left but shame

in my happy home I barely breathe
I never once in my wayward life was heading to run out

"Why don?t you come over"

it’s been a crazy time for us
of pushing all our limits
snapping necks and breaking balls
now you’d have done the same
but you were baking biscuits
while I went bent the law
sacrificing something
as you counted all my flaws

so why don’t you come over
oh why don’t you come over
why don’t you come over and walk in my shoes

you wanna live freely
don’t wanna die
you want it?
you got it
you chase the high
you wanna be out there
you wanna race
you wanna take over
just gotta play

so why don’t you come over
oh why don’t you come over
why don’t you come over and walk in my shoes

I’m a good person
don’t wanna fight with no-one
but you piss me off
you keep pushing , pushing
you’d best step off the gas girl
all bets are off
fuck you
you taste like toxic poison
I wash my hands of you

"Boys wanna fight"

the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night

they know best how they can mess with us
nursing an opinion’s getting dangerous
and in a world where good’s not good enough
let’s get loaded and kick up a fuss

the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night
the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night
is there anybody else?

what a mess we’ve made
it’s ridiculous
the whole wide world’s a stage of complete chaos
it’s gets so funny that we get confused
we don’t know where to turn cause we’ve all been used

the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night
the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night
is there anybody else?

let’s get loaded (oh let’s be selfish)
let’s get wasted (and lose our senses)
let’s get shit faced (so we can fake it)
let’s get stupid (just entertain us)
let’s get wicked (desensitize us)
let’s get toasted (don’t educate us)
let’s get hammered (yeah paralyze us)
let’s forget it (don’t count on all )

the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night
the boys wanna fight
but the girls are happy to dance all night
is there anybody else?

I’m sick sick sick of saying nothing
sick sick sick sick of doing nothing
I’m sick sick sick of saying nothing
but let’s get loaded

"Metal heart"

I wish I had a metal heart
I could cross the line
I wish that I was half as good
as you think I am

but now that we know for sure they’re telling lies when they say
no one gets hurt and therefore nobody dies
you know it’s hard to believe anything that you hear
they say the world is round

wish I was as big as you
you’d have to tell the truth
I’d be nothing you could hurt
nothing you could use

but now that we know for sure they’re telling lies when they say
no one gets hurt and therefore nobody dies
you know it’s hard to believe anything that you hear
they say the world is round
the world is round?

I want to be dependable, I want to be courageous and good
I want to be faithful so that I can be heroic and true
I want to be a friend you can rely on you can lean on and trust
I want to understand so I can forgive and be willing to love

I wish I wasn’t flesh and blood
I would not be scared
of bullets built with me in mind
for then i could be saved

my sweet lord take care of me for i think i’m done
kiss my mother on her cheek and lay my burden down

but now that we know for sure they’re telling lies when they say
no one gets hurt and therefore nobody dies
you know it’s hard to believe anything that you hear
they say the world is round
the world is round?
the world is round?!

"Bleed like me"

avalanche is sullen and too thin
she starves herself to rid herself of sin
and the kick is so divine when she sees bones beneath her skin
and she says:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c’mon baby can you bleed like me

chrissie’s all dressed up and acting coy
painted like a brand new christmas toy
he’s trying to figure out if he’s a girl or he’s a boy
he says:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c’mon baby can you bleed like me

doodle takes dad’s scissors to her skin
and when she does relief comes setting in
while she hides the scars she’s making underneath her pretty clothes
she sings:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c’mon baby can you bleed like me

therapy is speedie’s brand new drug
dancing with the devil’s past has never been too fun
it’s better off than trying to take a bullet from a gun
and she cries:
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c’mon baby can you bleed like me

it’s gets all fucked up in some karaoke bar
after two drinks he’s a loser after three drinks he’s a star
getting all nostalgic as he sings “I will survive”
hey baby can you bleed like me?
c’mon baby can you bleed like me

you should see my scars
you should see my scars
you should see my scars
you should see my scars
and try to comprehend that which you’ll never comprehend

"Why do you love me"

I惴 no barbie doll
I惴 not your baby girl
so I扉e done ugly things and I have made mistakes
and I am not as pretty as those girls in magazines
I am rotten to my core if they愉e to be believed
so what if I惴 no baby bird hanging upon your every word?
nothing ever smells of roses that rises out of mud

why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me

you愉e not some baby boy
why you acting so surprised
you愉e sick of all the rules
well I惴 sick of all your lies
now I扉e held back a wealth of shit I think I惴 gonna choke
I惴 standing in the shadows with the words stuck in my throat
does it really come as a surprise when I tell you I don愒 feel good?
that nothing ever came from nothing man
oh man ain愒 that the truth

why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
I get back up and I do it again
I get back up and I do it again
I get back up and I do it again
I get back up and I do it, I do it again

I think you愉e sleeping with a friend of mine
I have no proof but i think that I惴 right
and you扉e still got the most beautiful face
it just makes me sad most of the time

I get back up and I do it again
I get back up and I do it again
I get back up and I do it again
I get back up and I do it, I do it again
I do it again
I do it again
I do it again

why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me it愀 driving me crazy
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me
why do you love me