Garbage Lyrics

Lyric discussion by holycrapoctopus 

Cover art for Garbage lyrics by Aesop Rock

Like most of Aes' songs, the verses are surreal stream-of-consciousness and the chorus is the "thesis" of the songs that helps explain his deranged rambling.

He's talking about the effects of human civilization clashing with nature-- especially the negative effects such as pollution and forced adaptation to a new environment. The subject matter is similar to cLOUDDEAD's song 'Rifle Eyes.'

Most of Aesop's music deals with the problems in American society, especially corporatism, environmental damage, social inequality, and destruction. Keeping this is mind, lines such as

"Ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas Antifreeze to glacier cookin' a look of fiery nature "

make a lot more sense. And then sometimes he just spits nonsense that sounds cool.