Late in 2018, Kate Nash mentioned on her instagram that she had created a new song for an art exhibit focused on the damaging effects of plastic on the earth. That song was “Trash”, and was released to the wider public through Nylon magazine on January 18, 2019.
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[Verse 1]
Hey
Are you up?
Don't mean to wake you -
But I've got bad news
Hey
Is there someone you can talk to?
Hey, hey
Are you sitting down?
[Pre-Chorus]
Impure toxic devotion
Runs through me like a river to a plastic ocean, yeah
Chemicals run inside my heart
I'm holding on like a car that just can't start
And I could go for miles and miles
Yeah I could have crashed and still turned round
But it's too late, yeah
What's my fate?
[Chours]
Trash! Trash! Trash for you!
I'm trash! Trash! Trash for you
I'm trash
For you I'm trash
[Verse 2]
Hey, remember when
It was good and
Kissing felt like oxygen?
It was green
But I can't see that hilltop now
It's all turned grey
And it was a landfill
Anyway
[Pre-Chorus]
Impure toxic devotion
Runs through me like a river to a plastic ocean, yeah
Chemicals burning inside my heart
I'm holding on like a car that just can't start
And I could go for miles and miles
Yeah I could have crashed and still turned round
But it's too late
What's my fate?
[Chours]
Trash! Trash! Trash for you!
I'm trash! Trash! Trash for you
I'm trash
For you, I'm trash
Trash! Trash! Trash for you!
I'm trash! Trash! Trash for you
I'm trash
For you I'm trash
[Bridge]
Oh, only change you can burn me
But I'll never go away
I'll only change, you can burn me
But I'll never go away
Yeah, I'll only ever change
You can burn me, but I'll never go away
Yeah, I'll only ever change
Only ever change
Yeah I'll never go away
[Chours]
Trash! Trash! Trash for you!
I'm trash! Trash! Trash for you
I'm trash
For you, I'm trash
Trash! Trash! Trash for you!
I'm trash! Trash! Trash for you
I'm trash
For you I'm trash
Trash! Trash! Trash for you!
I'm trash, trash, trash! Trash for you
I'm trash
For you I'm trash
[Outro]
Ain't going away, yeah
Trash was written by Kate Nash.
At the release of the song, Nash told Nylon that “Trash”:
Was written after I was asked to take part in an exhibition curated by Athena Pagington, who asked artists to collect their single-use plastic for a certain number of days and then make something out of it…I went on a bit of a plastic trail…...