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The song was recorded during the band's second attempt at making ''Make Believe'', at Grandmaster Recorders in Los Angeles, CA. The sessions lasted from July 22 to October 22, 2004. It was one of 12 songs that Rivers Cuomo asked to band to only concentrate on, which he felt were the right songs for the album. Until early [[2005]], the song was designated to be the opening track. Ultimately the song was excluded from the final track list for unknown reasons and remains unreleased to this day. Not much else is known about the song. It didn't appear in Cuomo's [[Catalog of Riffs]] and wasn't mentioned in the band's official [[Recording History]] prior to the 2004 recording sessions at Grandmaster Recorders. Presumably the song was written not long before the sessions started. It was listed on Cuomo's spreadsheet of [[The 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo|4 and 5 Star Demos]] (as "The Average Person").<br> | The song was recorded during the band's second attempt at making ''Make Believe'', at Grandmaster Recorders in Los Angeles, CA. The sessions lasted from July 22 to October 22, 2004. It was one of 12 songs that Rivers Cuomo asked to band to only concentrate on, which he felt were the right songs for the album. Until early [[2005]], the song was designated to be the opening track. Ultimately the song was excluded from the final track list for unknown reasons and remains unreleased to this day. Not much else is known about the song. It didn't appear in Cuomo's [[Catalog of Riffs]] and wasn't mentioned in the band's official [[Recording History]] prior to the 2004 recording sessions at Grandmaster Recorders. Presumably the song was written not long before the sessions started. It was listed on Cuomo's spreadsheet of [[The 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo|4 and 5 Star Demos]] (as "The Average Person").<br> | ||
[[Karl Koch]] named the 11 songs that were finished but not used for ''Make Believe'' "[[The Fallen Soldiers]]". | [[Karl Koch]] named the 11 songs that were finished but not used for ''Make Believe'' "[[The Fallen Soldiers]]". | ||
==Lyrics== | |||
<poem> | |||
What if you took all the faces of everybody everywhere in the world | |||
And mixed them up in a great big supercomputer? | |||
What would the person look like? | |||
What color hair would he have? What kinda nose? | |||
What color eyes? How manly? How feminine? | |||
It's the average person | |||
I would like to see | |||
Average person | |||
Piques my curiosity | |||
Who would find his face attractive? | |||
Everybody or nobody? | |||
Or would we find it attractive at all? | |||
Who would identify with his face? | |||
Blacks, whites, Asians, or Hispanics? | |||
Everybody or nobody at all? | |||
It's the average person | |||
That I would like to see | |||
Average person | |||
Piques my curiosity | |||
I don't know why I bring this up | |||
I was just thinking about stuff | |||
Somewhere in my imagination | |||
Is this average face | |||
If we keep interbreeding | |||
We may see that face some day | |||
If I see that face some day | |||
I'll say "How do you do? | |||
My name is Hank the Plumber | |||
And I'm part of a mix of you" | |||
It's the average person | |||
That I would like to see | |||
This average person | |||
Piques my curiosity | |||
It's the average person | |||
That I would like to see | |||
Average person | |||
Piques my curiosity | |||
Average person | |||
I would like to see | |||
Average person | |||
Piques my curiosity | |||
</poem> | |||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals | ||