“Boys Wanna Fight” is track #9 on Garbage’s fourth album Bleed Like Me.
The song deals with feminism and equal rights for men and women, as well as referencing the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Shirley Manson on equality:
I don’t think equality equals “being the same as”. I think equality means the same op...
[Intro]
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
But the girls are happy to dance all night
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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?
Anybody else?
Is there anybody else?
Anybody else?
[Verse 2]
What a mess we've made, it's ridiculous
The whole wide world's a stage of complete chaos
It gets so funny that we get confused
We don't know where to turn cause we've all been used
[Chorus]
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?
Anybody else?
Is there anybody else?
Anybody else?
[Bridge]
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)
[Chorus]
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
I'm sick, sick, sick of doing nothing
Sick, sick, sick of saying nothing
I'm sick, sick, sick of doing nothing
I'm sick, sick, sick of saying nothing
So let's get loaded
[Outro]
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys wanna fight
The boys
Boys Wanna Fight was written by Butch Vig & Duke Erikson & Shirley Manson & Steve Marker.
Boys Wanna Fight was produced by Garbage.
Garbage released Boys Wanna Fight on Mon Apr 11 2005.