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13 X Forever Lyrics
Thirteen times you fucked with my karma.
And thirteen times I fucked on your dogma.
You've taught me to hate.
You've taught me to crawl.
You raised your hand as you raised the bottle.
You knock me down, but it made me stronger.
The harder you hit,
The harder you fall.
And this one's for my mother,
What will I do without her?
Don't look back.
Don't even bother.
And this one's for the father
Who loves his little daughter.
Well, here I am.
Don't even bother.
You can freak out about me,
But you'd lose your mind without me.
You thought you could see right through me,
But it made no difference to me, anyway.
Anyway.
A free reign gave you ammunition
To play the game and fuck other women.
And something just snapped
And cracked in my brain.
Thirteen times I sucked up inside me
The different ways that you tried to harm me.
You did it once.
You'll do it again.
And this one's for my sister,
You dare to denigrate her.
Don't look back.
Don't even bother.
And this one's for my lover,
The one who had to suffer.
Here I am.
Don't even bother.
You can freak out about me,
But you'd lose your mind without me.
You thought you could see right through me,
But it made no difference to me, anyway.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Thirteen times (one)
Thirteen times (two)
Thirteen times (three)
Thirteen times (four)
Thirteen times (five)
Thirteen times (six)
Thirteen times (seven)
Thirteen times (eight)
And thirteen times I fucked on your dogma.
You've taught me to hate.
You've taught me to crawl.
You knock me down, but it made me stronger.
The harder you hit,
The harder you fall.
What will I do without her?
Don't look back.
Don't even bother.
And this one's for the father
Who loves his little daughter.
Well, here I am.
Don't even bother.
But you'd lose your mind without me.
You thought you could see right through me,
But it made no difference to me, anyway.
Anyway.
To play the game and fuck other women.
And something just snapped
And cracked in my brain.
The different ways that you tried to harm me.
You did it once.
You'll do it again.
You dare to denigrate her.
Don't look back.
Don't even bother.
And this one's for my lover,
The one who had to suffer.
Here I am.
Don't even bother.
But you'd lose your mind without me.
You thought you could see right through me,
But it made no difference to me, anyway.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Thirteen times (two)
Thirteen times (three)
Thirteen times (four)
Thirteen times (five)
Thirteen times (six)
Thirteen times (seven)
Thirteen times (eight)
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The title and over-use of the number 13 makes me lean towards the theory that she's singing about being that horrible age in which nothing makes any sense.. but that her boyfriend is playing the field doesn't make any sence. To what I see, if we don't get too deep, is that she had a boyfriend who stole her from whoever she loved with his seductive ways. Apparently he's an alchoholic, and beats her around. She got fed up of him going off with other women, and fed up with being smacked around, and she just.. cracked.
Wow...can't you just see every neurotic fantasy book tragic heroine in this song? It reminds me of a lot of the plots in books I've read...of a girl driven so past beyond her breaking point she just snaps. Really quite a sad song..
i'm pretty sure the lyrics are:
Thirteen times you fucked with my karma. And thirteen times I Sucked on your dogma.
Does anyone know what record this is on? Great lyrics!
It's not on a record. This song is a b-side. One of their best b-sides, as a matter of fact. Hell, ALL their b-sides are the shit!! Just as good as the other songs. OMG, I love this band to death!!!
13xForever is on the UK, European and Australian singles for Special.
As a long standing Garbage fan this is one of my favourite b-sides of theirs - vulnerable yet aggressive lyrics are so powerful. Words cannot describe how much this band means to me
I'm surprised nobody's connected this to sexual abuse by a father. That's what I hear every time I listen to this song.
@Aquarius121 Oh c'mon. Here we go again.
@Aquarius121 Oh c'mon. Here we go again.