Garbage - The Trick Is To Keep Breathing 

I can’t believe how beautiful this song is. I’ve loved it since high school. “All the feels,” as the kids say.

I recently lost my wife of 31 years. We both loved Garbage. This song helps me when the grief makes it hard to breath. Awesome song.

This song is underrated

24 years and still rolling. What a piece of album. Garbage is probably the most underrated band of the 90`s

i never regretted buying GARBAGE V2.0 ... that album was an emotional roller coaster for me... my life theme songs were all in ONE masterpiece...every song ...that album made me cry with it's beats, lyrics and vocals resonating deep what I'm going through at that time. The band was so intelligent in making each song very personal to their listeners...Thank YOU... Your my number 1 FAVORITE band next is 2.Nirvana and 3.Evanescence...

her voice is a while room full of plush couches and a warm fireplace. her lyrics are icy rain against glass windows. fucking love these guys. the band does, such a great job of creating the playground for her voice

such an empowering song

This is probably my favourite song ever by Garbage.. For me to pick one though is really hard, but this particular one.. The violin synth arrangements in the chorus along with her vocals always give me chills each time I listen to it. I can literally listen to it a 100 times in a row and not get sick of it.. On top of that, the lyrical content is like.. perfect. Nothing more relatable, cuz the real trick IS to keep breathing when times are tough.. That's the message I always get out of it.. Amazing song.

"The Trick Is To Keep Breathing" She's not the kind of girl Who likes to tell the world About the way she feels about herself She takes a little time In making up her mind She doesn't want to fight against the tide Lately, I'm not the only one I say, never trust anyone Always the one who has to drag her down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around? Can't bear to face the truth So sick he cannot move And when it hurts he takes it out on you Lately I'm not the only one I say never trust anyone Always the one who has to drag her down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around? The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing She knows the human heart And how to read the stars Now everything's about to fall apart I won't be the one who's going to let you down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around? (The trick is to keep breathing) I won't be the one who's going to let you down (The trick is to keep breathing) Maybe you'll get what you want this time around? The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing

this song is very underrated. put your headphones at night and listen it masterpiece

Sometimes such underrated masterpieces help us cope with life. The entire album V2.0 was a 10/10

Great song and Shirley is so gorgeous

This whole album is flawless.

nostalgia.......i can't even explain what this band is to me...garbage was a force to be reckoned with. i'll always listen. always...

Number 1 song of all time for me right here! We all have reasons to love music and Garbage. I won't bore everyone with my reasoning. All I will say is that in the summer of '98 I was 18 and living life. I had to buy this CD like 4 times because I kept wearing them out. Thank you for the memories, Garbage! Love you always

One of my favourite Garbage songs: enigmatic, embedding, melodic, intimate and magnificent!

This Album was top tier. Start to finish. Easily one of my all time favorite albums.

This song is the reason I'm still here today. It means the world to me.

She looks so beautiful, with her hair braided and ponytailed. This is such a sweet, tender, thoughtful, and mindful song. God be with you, Garbage. Flame on. 🔥🔥🥰

I wish Garbage wrote more ballads: it’s their greatest works

Another sultry song by Shirley, who has such a vocal range,who can change her voice to suit the song.Garbage are such an underrated band with unique memorial songs.

In the late 90's I locked eyes with Shirley in a concert in Madison, WI. Even in such a fast moving rough crowd up front and center, I managed to get the luck of having her look directly at me for 3 full seconds. Better than any autograph, but I got one of them also.

I've always loved this song. very. 2.0 helped me get through highschool.

This is the most underrated band of all time.

If there is an album from the 90s that you could listen to from beginning to end and it charged you with energy and rebellion at the same time, it is Garbage Version 2.0.

This album and band got me through my teenage years. Being gay and not apart of anything. Never talking to anyone or making friends (I was so afraid of being found out). Not having anyone who understood me or what I liked and what I really love. Trying my best to stand outside the crowd but always wanting to be that person in the crowd. Life seemed like everything was really hard and the anxiety of how will I get through this? I don’t know how. What if I fail. What if I’m not who i thought I was going to be. What if I never love someone because of who I am, what if my relation with family falls apart when my secret seeps out? I don’t know why I freaked out myself so much, and depressed because I couldn’t do anything about it. That I’ll always be the one alone, looking in, at everything that I wanted. But I always got by with my music and my cat, because I didn’t really have any friends, he was my best friend of course. I’m glad I had this because I had so much self hatred towards myself. It smoothed out the hard edges sometimes. I’m glad I had Garbage ☺️

underrated. highly underrated. one of the best performers ever.

Just the subtleties in this song that you can pick out 20 years later that you may not have ever heard. The breathing, the guitars at the end and Shirley’s voice being overlapped just make this song so great and the entire album so great. Butch is the master of originality.

This song saved my life. C-PTSD. Years of abuse. BUT I won. Stronger.

Not only is this song absolutely beautiful. Reading how many people it helped through dark times warms my heart. To me this will always the song that felt like the hug I needed after my first girlfriend broke up with me.

This song still gives me goosebumps. Im not sure if im the only one

THIS NEEDS MORE VEIWS!!! THIS BAND ISN'T APPRECIATED ENOUGH. 💜💜💜

Love the bassline. Superb song from an excellent album.

I'm a grown man and this song makes me tear up almost every time I hear it. Can relate to the lyrics so much. I'm seeing Garbage in Cincinnati Sept. 15th, hope to hell they do this song.

My favorite Garbage song. Absolutely beautiful.

Always loved cranking me up some Garbage. Their shit just never gets old lol.

Love this song... one of my favorites... it's been over 25 yrs now

Love the first time chorus "And lately..." the soundstage gets wide with the synths. Goosebumps. Also when the violins gets in at 02:03 Very well done. "..and how to read the stars"

Still get goosebumps from this song more than 20 years later.

She has a particular beauty and voice that makes her unique.

Shirley is such a badass!

Her beauty matches her voice. Go hand in hand .

You can watch this with the sound off and still feel that charisma Shirley Manson has, it's insane

Interesting reading people saying stuff like "nostalgia" and "I'm 16 again". I was 40 when this came out, and it still seems like fairly recent music to me, in the scheme of things. Great stuff though. Love everything Garbage have done.

This music is pure Garbage, which means it's really good.

Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead etc were some of the best bands to come out of the 90s...loved listening to them back then, when I was in college

This song makes me ache in the most beautiful way possible.

I wanna crying every time when I listen this song so sad, so beautiful.

One of the best and most originals bands I've ever listened to. This song is a great example of their originality in lyrics and use of instruments.

Yikes, discovered this song in the early 2000's and it still feels deep into my soul. Amazing how I vividly remember this song since I was a kid.

Garbage is really good at changing up the sound of their songs from almost a background noise to big vibes.

timeless song, sort of trip hop, completely cool

One of their best songs.

"Lately..." and those lower parties of Shirley's voice make me cry like a teenager on the Rolling Stones concert. ;-))

This song still stabs me in the heart and festers the teenage angst I've long thought to be repressed, but feel all to clearly hasn't. Now that my emotional walls have crumbled from a full listening; I'm going to go cry now.

What a great song from a great band. Their first 2 albums should be in any musical collection.

this is easily my favorite song from Garbage. it kind of has a haunting chill to it, at least to me haha. this and Medication are my favorite songs from 2.0

So magical, so ethereal, so therapeutic... one of my favorite songs in my whole life... and one of my favorite bands. Version 2.0 is a full piece of holy art...

I have been with garbage for over 20 years. Had 3 albums and loved all 3. They rock my world.

Oh the memories. Definitely an underrated song from one of the UK's finest bands.

Correct, this album was a beautiful masterpiece. Quintessential band of the 90’s

the sounds, the changes of rithm, the melody, HER VOICE....... guauu

I remember when I bought the album (I guess I must have been about 14) and this was and still is one of my favorite songs. Well I am 39 today. This is what you call a good song💕

Shirley Manson is a superior lyricist, the embodiment of teenage angst in the 90s, eternally so, for ever and ever.

atmospheric one of their best

I've loved Garbage since shortly after they started. The way Shirley sings in such a raw, haunting display of pure emotion always spoke to my heart. As I age (I'm two years older than Shirley) their music hurts so deep in my heart I can barely listen. All the loss, pain, desire, need, frustration at those in power and dear I say, God. Time takes it all as Shirley sings on their No God No Masters album. She and they ask hard questions that I find myself asking more and more. Are we ever going to get a satisfactory answer? Anyway, Shirley is beyond the justification by words, she transends all of that with who she is, first and foremost. After that; her voice, her attitude, her kindness, her sense of humor, her depth and such a fire and heart I can only dream exists in this world.

This is my all time personal favorite song from Garbage.

she is such an inspiration.. dark and haunting.. I really love to sing and I would like to have such a beautiful voice as she does... she has a perfect color

I love reading the comments in the Garbage songs - makes me feel normal. Their songs often bring tears to me.....

Back then, I felt like "the kind of guy, who didn't like to tell the world, about the way he feels, about himself....". This band had an impact on me back then, and I wasn't a kid. Damn! 3:)

No 2 Garbage songs are the same, which is what makes them so awesome!

Dear Shirley......God bless your yummy self. been a fan since day one. Garbage will always be in my library.

Honestly I listen to so many types of music and this is one of my favorite songs ever

The best singer ever

This is my favorite track from my favorite band of all time.

you guys truly saved my life. Listening to your music helped me feel less alone and kept be going through some of my worst years. thank you for existing

I met both Shirley Manson & Butch Vig during my 9 years working at a famous store in Beverly Hills. I love Butch Vig & Shirley Manson & the rest of the band ( Garbage ).. your music will never die. Believe that. That's all.

Amazing and beautiful song by Garbage.

Back in the days when artists really had something to say, the. Time when it was okay not to be okay, and you only had to listen to a song to realize you weren't the only one who felt that way.

Just keep pushin'. Never give up

O MY GOD!!! THIS SONGS MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I'M 17 ALL OVER AGAIN....

She’s a siren❤

sounds so soft and peaceful

One of my favorite songs of theirs. Shirley is magic.

It's been more than a decade, the trick is still to keep breathing.

Shirley Manson never gets old. She's my heroine and I love Garbage!

It's 2020 and we still love you, Shirley... Big thanks, greetings from Polska.

This is a masterpiece by Garbage...It cements their awesomeness for sure!!!

I love the use of the chorus as the bridge in this song, and particularly the different bassline and subtle sequencer synth on the bridge. That's the highlight of this song for me. Whoever came up with that idea is a genius!

I loved garbage so much . This song kept me alive many times ❤️

In 2020, this song is just as beautiful. Thanks for the memories of youth.

even after all these years this song makes me go to a place and feel things i cant explain. fif i love you!!! AND THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHIN

Dear Shirley !! Best song ever . Had my best time in life with it , thank's so much . Stay save . xxx ⚓ Michel

such an amazing music video... using concert footage and mixing it with studio shots that look and feel exactly like the concert shots... and it's not only her hair and makeup and dress, also the lighting and background and all... and the result: we see her sing kinda outside of her "real time onstage" appearances... like, in a parallel reality, which gives a great perspective of reflecting... this video is a beautiful Shirley Manson portrayal...

Such nostalgia and such deep vibes when I play this nowadays.

Whole CD was very good 👍

Listening to this years ago was immersing yourself in a new universe, today it feels the same, it is quite an experience

There are some songs that wrap me up in warmth and make me feel safe and not alone. This is one of them. Thank you for such kindness dear Garbage.

Thanks for humbling and reminded me of this .you dont fight it you live it Wisdom timeless

Always my favorite track from the entire album, still melts my heart to this day. The lyrics, they're just truly some of the best music I've heard in this life. I only wish I could utilize the message of it, in my life.