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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
Chris is 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
And 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
JT 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
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 22, 2013 - 19:40 Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Jan 22, 2013 - 12:07 Two chicks named Manson: Shirley and Marilyn. Which would you date? |
| Kokoloco53 (Southeastern Arizona) | Posted: Oct 20, 2012 - 10:23 I really like the vocals, the overall composition, the theme. Best song I've heard on RP for a long while. Where have I been? |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 09:24 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... |
| MTL_Robbie (As far far left from Harperville as possible) | Posted: May 15, 2012 - 14:41 gemtag wrote: Actually I'd like to hear some Luscious Jackson. Yes! Me too. Some LJ on RP would be refreshing. |
| le_colonel | Posted: May 15, 2012 - 14:40 I forgot that this is a pretty good song. How apt to hear some Garbage on here again what with the new album around the corner. Definitely thrilled about the end of their hiatus. |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Feb 10, 2012 - 11:25 Forest267 wrote: Sounds like "Naked Eye" by Luscious Jackson... Actually I'd like to hear some Luscious Jackson. |
| Rabid_Engineer (Europa!) | Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 02:53 The melody reminds me a bit of U2's The First Time... I like it. |
| kulbreez | Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 20:51 I find the lyrics pretty spot on. I'm an 'old' and I remember feeling like this. So. Let's not dismiss the starvers, the cutters, the posers. With luck we find our way out eventually. |
| p2h2d2 (On the Lake) | Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 20:50 haunting but pollyanish. |
| Forest267 (Milwaukee) | Posted: Sep 23, 2010 - 11:42 Sounds like "Naked Eye" by Luscious Jackson... |
| Crawlmeister (NYC) | Posted: Sep 23, 2010 - 11:35 Finally, an F-bomb! |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 12:32 She described my every karaoke experience....after 3 drinks I'm a star! |
| stevepants | Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 12:31 used to love Garbage, now I'm kind of bored. |
| roxmilt (Puget Sound Cloud) | Posted: Jun 19, 2010 - 15:30 Great Band, Decent Song, Atrocious Album...Fit Singer |
| rtwingo | Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 12:34 Good band, good song. |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 12:11 Bad band; weak song.  |
| david1045 (Madison Wisconsin) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 21:43 Good band, weak song. |
| nate917 (2,815 miles from home) | Posted: Jan 12, 2010 - 11:13 iggam wrote: This is like bad junior high school poetry complete with the self-mutilaiton references. I've like their stuff in the past, but it's getting less interesting. Polly Jean: Too old for emo? Too rich to be a cutter? Discuss. |
| smokingpikachu (Tucson, Arizona) | Posted: Jan 12, 2010 - 11:12 I like their older stuff. |
| htowncoog (Texas) | Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 11:28 iggam wrote: This is like bad junior high school poetry complete with the self-mutilaiton references. I've like their stuff in the past, but it's getting less interesting. You've got to be kidding? I'm guessing your poetry/lyrical offerings would truly be on the "junior high" level.  |
| vit | Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 11:26 What happened to Jackie? I hear (s)he thought (s)he was James Dean for a day. |
| iggam (Chicago) | Posted: May 04, 2009 - 23:10 This is like bad junior high school poetry complete with the self-mutilaiton references. I've like their stuff in the past, but it's getting less interesting. |
| le_colonel | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:12 jamesphoenix wrote: this is the best song off their new album - really the only one worth playing. Play more old garbage! I don't agree. It's a very good song but far from the best from this album. Run Baby Run, It's All Over But the Crying and Happy Home are all great. In fact, I think Happy Home is so good it can contend for Garbage's all-time Top 5 or Top 10. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:09 Great song... love it... |
| htowncoog (Texas) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:07 One of their best tunes! |
| ScopArch (Berlin, Baby) | Posted: Nov 28, 2008 - 02:11 Heartwrenching lyrics: "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" |
| davin (Victoria, British Columbia) | Posted: Jul 24, 2008 - 15:19 Everything Liz Phair wishes she could be. |
| sqqqrly (Baboosic Lake, NH) | Posted: Dec 17, 2007 - 07:53 Verpeiler wrote: I loved the first two albums. Great stuff. After that I lost interest, though. This I hardly recognized ... and then I realized it´s, well ... its garbage Me to....not garbage song I would miss. And I couldn't give a shit about her scars... |
| hippiechick (Weekendland) | Posted: Dec 17, 2007 - 07:53 Shirley RAWKS!!! 
I can't remember where I heard this story, maybe from the source: Garbage was doing a photo shoot for the cover of Spin (several yrs ago) and just as they were snapping, she peed on the floor. They photoshopped it out. |
| Verpeiler (Düsseldorf, Germany) | Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 13:35 jamesphoenix wrote: Beatiful Garbage does in fact REALLY suck. This album is better, but... If you want to hear great Garbage, check out their first album (self titled) or "version 2.0"
That said, this is the best song off their new album - really the only one worth playing. Play more old garbage! I loved the first two albums. Great stuff. After that I lost interest, though. This I hardly recognized ... and then I realized it´s, well ... its garbage  |
| rtkmusic (SoCal) | Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 13:32 such a positive, uplifting message for the youth of today!!! |
| Dave_Mack (On the bus) | Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 13:32 Ooh, didn't like that. |
| peyotecoyote (London, Ontario) | Posted: May 11, 2007 - 10:51 ScottFromWyoming wrote:  Didn't Hole do a song with the phrase "bleed like me" in it too?I purposely popped the infor up on this one this because I believed it was Hole. |
| Roverfish (Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting, please drive through!) | Posted: Aug 27, 2005 - 21:52 mxdcec wrote: GARBAGE LYRICS (deleted) Or, alternately, one could click on the SONG LYRICS link above...   (and save having to scroll half a page down to find meaningful posts)
Likeable tune, though there are many more from Garbage I prefer over this...a little too "airy" for them. |
| mxdcec | Posted: Aug 13, 2005 - 01:31 GARBAGE LYRICS "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? Chris is 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? JT 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? 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 Try to comprehend that which you'll never comprehend Try to comprehend that which you'll never comprehend Just try to comprehend that which you'll never comprehend Try to comprehend that which you'll never comprehend You should see my scars You should see my scars |
| LordBaltimore (Baltimore, MD) | Posted: Jul 23, 2005 - 19:28 Sorry, but I find Garbage's "I'm so depressed" attitude unconvincing. |
| Pipes (Murray, UT) | Posted: Jul 14, 2005 - 10:38 I like this one. |
| TampaPurple (Tampa) | Posted: Jun 27, 2005 - 11:42 I was going to bag on this song, until I heard this lyric: JT 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" How many times have I been right there. Sad, I know. |
| aceface (a hollowed-out volcano on the western rim) | Posted: Jun 24, 2005 - 08:01 jamesphoenix wrote: Beatiful Garbage does in fact REALLY suck. This album is better, but... If you want to hear great Garbage, check out their first album (self titled) or "version 2.0"
I like Beautiful Garbage. I think of the first album as the band finding their sound. With Version 2.0 they define their sound. And with BG, they refine it. I like all three. That said, this is the best song off their new album - really the only one worth playing.
I can't agree with that. I find "Run Baby Run," "The Boys Wanna Fight," and "Why Don't You Come Over" more energizing myself. Play more old garbage!
Play ANY Garbage.  |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell, Wyo.) | Posted: Jun 24, 2005 - 07:47 Didn't Hole do a song with the phrase "bleed like me" in it too? |
| RobGraham (Proudly in a blue state) | Posted: Jun 24, 2005 - 07:46 Hmmmm...if you can't say something nice...I'll be quiet now |
| Johray63 (The Lowlands) | Posted: Jun 17, 2005 - 03:56 I always thought this band had a very interesting, great sound. They still have, but they used to combine that with good songs. I can't say I'm too impressed about this one, in that respect. |
| Peyote (except 4 me and my MONKEY!!) | Posted: Jun 07, 2005 - 07:06 jamesphoenix wrote: Beatiful Garbage does in fact REALLY suck. This album is better, but... If you want to hear great Garbage, check out their first album (self titled) or "version 2.0"
That said, this is the best song off their new album - really the only one worth playing. Play more old garbage!  Yeah, we want old Garbage...new Garbage stinks!  |
| jbtidwell (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Jun 07, 2005 - 07:04 I love the double-bass part, it reminds me of the heavy hair rock bands - very cool usage here! |
| Pyro (Northwest Louisiana) | Posted: Jun 02, 2005 - 11:34 yogaboat wrote: This is the first Garbage I've heard that I actually like!
:nodhead: |
| yogaboat (outer space, obviously) | Posted: Jun 02, 2005 - 11:33 This is the first Garbage I've heard that I actually like! |
| timandjuliet (Lidsville) | Posted: May 27, 2005 - 08:33 Havn't been too impressed with what I've heard from this album so far, but I like this one. |
| B-dub (Durham, NC) | Posted: May 27, 2005 - 08:30 rah wrote: will the real lou reed please stand up?
I was thinking Suzanne Vega. Pretty good tune tho |
| resonator | Posted: May 25, 2005 - 22:35 This is cool. I hear hints of the Breeders, and a bit of that song about any idiot can be whatever for a day that we hear on RP once in a while, but just hints. |