Free Lunch

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"Free Lunch"
Free Lunch cover
Single by Chopper One
Released 1995
Recorded 1995 at The Sandbox, Los Angeles, CA
Length 3:11
Label USA Side 1 Recordings/Dummy Recordings
Writer(s) Jason Cropper, Amy Cropper
Producer(s) Recorded and mixed by Mike Bosley and Geoff Seigel
Status Out of print
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"Free Lunch"
Free Lunch cover
Album track by Chopper One
Album Now Playing
Released July 15, 1997
Format CD, cassette, vinyl
Recorded Water Music, Hoboken, NJ
Length 3:23
Label Restless Records
Writer(s) Jason Cropper, Amy Cropper
Producer(s) Don Fleming
Status Officially released
Now Playing track listing
"Free Lunch"
(1)
"Touch My Fuzz"
(2)

"Free Lunch" is the debut 7"-vinyl single by Chopper One, the band formed by former Weezer guitarist Jason Cropper. The song was later re-recorded and released as the first track from the band's only studio LP, Now Playing (later re-issued as simply Chopper One).

Overview

The "Free Lunch" single was produced by Mike Bosley and Geoff Siegel at The Sandbox in Los Angeles and released exclusively on vinyl in 1995 by SideOneDummy Records. The song was inspired by the tough times kids have in school as they grow up.

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7"-vinyl single

Now Playing

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Lyrics

I took a trip once, I was thirteen
I thought I was unlucky but I guess it doesn't mean much
I was a new kid, I wasn't in the cool bunch
Rode the bus to school, and I had to eat the free lunch

There was the girls who said I was corroded
I didn't have the cooties but my ego just folded
Then one day I saw him, underneath the table
Little Larry Donahue was so unstable

Don't let him fade away
That kid from yesterday
He was my only friend
And I'll wait until the end

I took another ride, I was much older
Sometimes I wear a jacket 'cause the weather gets colder
I became a daddy, Larry is a doctor
I still got the memory of sharing that locker

After summer and we went back to school
One year older but still a bunch of fools
All the kids are cooler, class is really hard
We deal like drugs and we shuffle like cards

Don't let him fade away
That kid from yesterday
He was my only friend
And I'll wait until the end

Those kids they love to hate
No one to contemplate
The teachers learn that well
Growing up can be hell

Don't let him fade away
That kid from yesterday
He was my only friend
And I'll wait until the end

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