Blood for Poppies

Garbage * Track #3 On Not Your Kind of People

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Album Not Your Kind of People

ALBUM

Garbage

2012

Blood for Poppies by Garbage

Release Date

Mon Mar 26 2012

Performed by

Garbage

Produced by

Garbage

Writed by

Steve Marker & Duke Erikson & Butch Vig & Shirley Manson

About

“Blood for Poppies” is the lead single from Garbage’s 2012 album Not Your Kind of People. In March 2012, the track was distributed to fans for free via the band website, though it had leaked the week before. The lyrics are according to Shirley Manson, “meant to feel sort of like an abstract dream,...

Blood for Poppies Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Salute the sun, I've been sitting here all night long
Hauling rock over Buddha with the Longhorn
Got a hole, rip a pocket off my uniform
With the Blackwatch Boys, get your heads down
Oh-oh, oh-oh (Oh-oh, oh-oh)

[Verse 2]
Duty calls but it's way too late, I'm too far gone
Waiting for Godot, hell, with my pants down
Cracked the stash, sent me crying in the midday sun
I miss my dog and I miss my freedom (Freedom)
Oh-oh, oh-oh (Oh-oh, oh-oh)
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (Oh-oh, oh-oh)

[Chorus]
I don't know why they are calling on the radio
They know I'm here just out of sight
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
He's by my side and I know I'm right
I don't know why they are calling on the radio
They know I'm here just out of sight
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
He's by my side and I know I'm right (Know I'm right)

[Verse 3]
I hate the things I think about you when I'm all alone
I know you're tough, but I've been gone for so long
Play the memories of you inside my head
So all these pictures of us burn and radiate

[Verse 4]
Watch the clouds and I'm falling, falling through the cracks
Head beats and the heart is pounding fast
Off the ground into the starry dark
Into your arms I'm falling (Falling, falling)
Oh-oh, oh-oh (Falling, falling)
Oh-oh (Falling, falling), oh-oh, oh-oh (Falling)

[Chorus]
I don't know why they are calling on the radio
They know I'm here just out of sight
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
He's by my side and I know I'm right
I don't know why they are calling on the radio
They know I'm here just out of sight
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
He's by my side and I know I'm right (Know I'm right)

[Bridge]
(...Keep on falling)
My brain, my body's fried
I've got to stay alive
I've gotta take a chance and keep on moving
Keep on moving

[Chorus]
I don't know why they are calling on the radio
They know I'm here just out of sight
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
He's by my side and I know I'm right
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
It's on my side and I know I'm right (I see your light from miles away)
Don't know why they are calling on the radio
It's on my side and I know I'm alright

[Outro]
(I see your light from miles away)
Oh-oh, oh-oh (Oh-oh, oh-oh)
(I see your light from miles away)
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Blood for Poppies Q&A

Who wrote Blood for Poppies's ?

Blood for Poppies was written by Steve Marker & Duke Erikson & Butch Vig & Shirley Manson.

Who produced Blood for Poppies's ?

Blood for Poppies was produced by Garbage.

When did Garbage release Blood for Poppies?

Garbage released Blood for Poppies on Mon Mar 26 2012.

What did Garbage say about "Blood for Poppies"?

“Blood For Poppies” is meant to feel sort of like an abstract dream. The inspiration came from a story I had read in The Los Angeles Times about the opium trade and also from watching the documentary Restrepo. It’s not literal in any sense whatsoever but it’s a song about disorientation and delusi...

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