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-{{Featured song MP3 headline|http://open.spotify.com/track/60W6ZgS9Apy7H8jE0qAnuX|Walt Disney}}
+{{Featured song MP3 headline|http://open.spotify.com/track/0K3ChvdsbM3ZzAxh2RjmO3|Getting Up and Leaving}}
-{{Featured song artwork|Alone-II.jpg}}"'''Walt Disney'''" is the fifteenth track on ''[[Alone II]]'' and was written in January 1995. The lyrics of the song make reference to the urban legend that Walt Disney was placed in suspended animation upon his death. The lyrics themselves deal with Cuomo's frustrations with touring:
+{{Featured song artwork|Pinkerton_Deluxe.png}}"'''Getting Up and Leaving'''" is a once unreleased Weezer song written in 1993 by Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson. It appeared on Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition) in 2010.
-''"I tried to describe the frozen, numb condition I had fallen into after seven months in the spotlight on the road. The song had a beautiful, mellow sound. I really appreciated it and was grateful to it. It did capture the state of my life at the time."''
+Weezer first recorded the song as a live demo during a Blue Album pre-production session with Ric Ocasek at S.I.R. Studios in New York on November 8, 1993. Later, in the summer of 1996, a studio version was recorded but never finished during the Pinkerton sessions at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. Along with "I Swear It's True", the song was designated for release on a retail "Pink Triangle" CD single in 1997 which, unfortunately, was never released.
-Rivers has said that the "phone singing" line in the third verse was a stand in for Weezer's manager calling him to go over the details of the impending tour which he dreaded.
+At that time, Matt Sharp had already started recording what would become The Rentals' second album Seven More Minutes and was unable to attempt the sessions, scheduled for Rivers's spring break from Harvard. After several levels of auditions for a bass player, Scott Riebling, who formerly played with Letters To Cleo, was chosen to function as the stand-in bass player for the sessions. According to Riebling, Mikey Welsh might have been the runner-up in the final audition.
+It is unknown whether the song, along with "I Swear It's True", was completely recut, as claimed by Riebling in 2005, or if the earlier recording from 1996 was finished.
-{{Featured song links|Walt Disney}}
+{{Featured song links|Getting Up and Leaving}}
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