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 | Name     = You Play, You Pay
 | Type     = Live bootleg
-| Artist   = Avant Garde
+| Artist   = Zoom
 | Album    =
 | Released =
 | Recorded =
 | Length   =
-| Writer   = Avant Garde
+| Writer   = Zoom
 | Status   = Live performance circulating
 }}
-"'''You Play, You Pay'''" is an unreleased song by [[Avant Garde]].
+"'''You Play, You Pay'''" is a song by [[Zoom]] (né [[Avant Garde]]).
 ==Overview==
-According to the [[Recording History - Page 1|Weezer Recording History]], "You Play, You Pay" was performed live by Avant Garde, likely around 1988, but it not known to have been demoed. Bootleg recordings of the song exist, but only one circulates from their concert at Gazzarri's on the Sunset Strip, in July [[1989]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4VNTIhf2eY "You Pay, You Play": Zoom at Gazzarri's on the Sunset Strip, July 1989]. YouTube. February 9, 2022.</ref>
+{{Expand section}}
 ==Video==
 <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4VNTIhf2eY</youtube> <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytDuaf_y5w</youtube>
 ==Lyrics==
 <poem>
-You want to make some money
+You want to make the money
-With one foot in the race
+With ??? in the race
-You want to take the ??? in someone else's place
+You want to take the trophy
+With someone else's face
-We wont play, we wont ride your ego
+We wont play
-It's okay, you know where you can go
+We wont ride your ankle
+It's a game
+And you know where you can go
 You play, you pay
-You can't give something when you've got nothing
+You can't give something
+When you've got nothing
 You play, you pay
-You're smoke and fire won't get you higher
+Your smoke and fire
+Won't get you higher
-You enjoy all the glory, well it was never yours
+You enjoy all the glory
-Always behind the action, while someone takes their turn
+Well, it was never yours
+Always behind the action
+While someone takes their turn
-We wont play, we wont ride your ego
+We wont play
-It's okay, you know where you can go
+We wont ride your ankle
+It's a game
+And you know where you can go
 You play, you pay
-You can't give something when you've got nothing
+You can't give something
+When you've got nothing
 You play, you pay
-You're smoke and fire won't get you higher
+Your smoke and fire
+Won't get you higher
-You know i've seen all this shit, cool
+You know I've seen all this shit
-While you big boys with your fancy toys think you're running the show
+Cool
-We all sit on a time bomb baby, that's how ??? goes
+While you ??? boys with your fancy toys
+You think you're running the show
+We all sit on a time bomb, baby
+And that time bomb's gonna blow
 You play, you pay
-That's how it goes
+And that's how it goes
 You play, you pay
 Everybody knows
-We wont play, we wont ride your ego
+We wont play
-It's okay, you know where you can go
+We wont ride your ankle
+It's a game
+And you know right where you can go
 You play, you pay
-You can't give something when you've got nothing
+You can't give something
+When you've got nothing
 You play, you pay
-You're smoke and fire won't get you higher
+Your smoke and fire
+Won't get you higher
 You play, you pay
-You can't give something when you've got nothing
+You can't give something
+When you've got nothing
 You play, you pay
-You're smoke and fire won't get you higher
+Your smoke and fire
+Won't get you higher
-Stick this in front of your face
+Stick this right in your face
 </poem>
-{{References list}}
 ==See also==
 *[[Avant Garde]]
 *[[Recording History - Page 1]]
-[[Category:Avant Garde]]
+*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
+[[Category:Avant Garde]][[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]]