Leader of the Pack
"Leader Of The Pack" | |||||
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Demo by Rivers Cuomo | |||||
Album | Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years | ||||
Recorded | 2007 | ||||
Length | 4:35 | ||||
Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
Producer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
Status | unreleased | ||||
Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years track listing | |||||
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"Leader of the Pack" is a song by Rivers Cuomo, demoed in early contention for Weezer's Red Album. Cuomo's demo was released in 2020 as part of the digital compilation Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years.
Appearances
Background
"Leader of the Pack" was recorded as the seventh track on Deliverance at Hand!, a 2007 CD-R demo compilation that Rivers Cuomo presented to the other members of Weezer for consideration on the band's planned sixth album. Though the song did not make the cut for Red, the song's lyrics were leaked online in 2018, and Cuomo's Deliverance at Hand! demo was released in 2020 as part of the digital compilation Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years.
Lyrics
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Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.
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Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.
I have got some skills
That can pay the bills
And I am a kind of winner
But I'm not the type
That the young girls like
Or your parents ask to dinner
I am just a guy
I know how to try
And I will give my very best
Until the day I die
Alright, okay
There's nothing left to say
I'm the leader of the pack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
Alright, it's cool
There's nothing left to do
I'm the leader of the pack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
In the place I'm from
Anyone can run
And become the hometown hero
If you start some smack
You will get hit back
And your prospects will be zero
I may not look strong
But I can prove you wrong
And I think that I just might teach
The world to sing along
Alright, okay
There's nothing left to say
I'm the leader of the pack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
Alright, it's cool
There's nothing left to do
I'm the leader of the pack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
Me and the boys are rockin' out
Tearin' up the stage
Every night turn we it on
And then we turn the page
When we feel the chemistry
You don't get in the way
If you try to stop us
We're gonna make you pay
I'm comin' home
Alright, okay
There's nothing left to say
I'm the leader of the pack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
Alright, it's cool
There's nothing left to do
I'm the leader of the pack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
And they jump when they hear the whip crack
Alright, alright
Alright, alright
Known recordings
Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
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Rivers Cuomo | Leader of the Pack | 07 Leader of the Pack.mp3 | 2007 | 4:35 | Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years |