“Garbage” is the first track on Chairlift’s debut album Does You Inspire You (2008).
The song appears to be about materialism, the permanence of discarded consumer products, and how one’s garbage describes one’s life.
All the garbage that you have thrown away
Is waiting somewhere a million miles away
Your condoms and your VCR
Your Ziploc bags and father's car
Dark and silent, it waits for you ahead
So much garbage will never ever decay
And all your garbage will outlive you one day
You should sign a fancy signature to your messy, messy portraiture
Because dark and silent it waits for you ahead
Making so much garbage each and every day
We make this shit for you to throw away
In plastic rooms in factories for you to dispose of as you please
'Cause dark and silent it waits for you ahead
With stomachs full of oil and vinegar
Stomachs full of oil and vinegar
With stomachs full of oil and vinegar, hey hey
With stomachs full of oil and vinegar
Stomachs full of oil and vinegar
With stomachs full of oil and vinegar, hey hey
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Garbage was written by Aaron Pfenning & Patrick Wimberly & Caroline Polachek.
Garbage was produced by Britt Myers & Chairlift.
Singer and co-writer Caroline Polachek on this song:
This is one of our first songs, so it sets the scene for the record. ‘Garbage’ is a dream of a magic carpet ride over a moonlit landfill in 2012, seeing all your own detritus still sitting there. In a way, the record is like that – wrappings of d...