Piece of Cake

"Piece of Cake"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Weezer (The Black Album)
Released	March 1, 2019
Recorded	2018
Length	3:17
Label	Crush Music/Atlantic Records
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s)	Dave Sitek
Status	officially released
Weezer (The Black Album) track listing
10 tracks "Can't Knock the Hustle" "Zombie Bastards" "High as a Kite" "Living in L.A." "Piece of Cake" "I'm Just Being Honest" "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" "The Prince Who Wanted Everything" "Byzantine" "California Snow"

"Piece of Cake" is the fifth track from The Black Album. It was leaked online on February 26, 2019.

Appearances

• Weezer (The Black Album) (2019)
• Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years (2021)

Overview

Scene from The Space Between

The lyric "Have some more Sprite" was lifted by Rivers Cuomo from the script of the 2021 film The Space Between (written by Will Aldis), wherein the character Micky Adams (Kelsey Grammer) encourages Charlie Porter (Jackson White) to "have some more 'Sprite'" (actually a beverage laced with drugs). Cuomo, who sometimes employs the use of Python scripting to choose lyrics, confirmed the connection in December of 2021, telling a fan, "I put the movie script into my machine. And when I was writing Piece of Cake, it suggested that line. I chose it without remembering where it came from." Cuomo has stated that the "Betty" mentioned in the lyrics was a nonagenarian neighbor who moved away.

Lyrics

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do

Let's do hard drugs
Fix our problems
Let me swing by
Tears in my eyes

She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Hope can drive a man insane
She ate me up

Do do-do-do-do-do-do

Hop on this trash
Be my last chance
We'll eat ice cream
Weep for Betty

She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Hope can drive a man insane
She ate me up

Do do-do-do-do-do-do

She was into me
And then she changed the dial like I'm grunge or gangsta' rap
Now I'm hanging out
With a kitty cat named Baudelaire on my lap
I never stopped her planets turning, no

Do do-do-do-do-do-do

Hey man, cheer up
Make your own luck
Have a nice life
Have some more Sprite

She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Hope can drive a man insane
She ate me up
She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Hope can drive a man insane
She ate me up

No thoughts, she does not have her face
No heart that I could try to tame
No mind that I can reason with
Just cold and hatred in her kiss

I need another player on my team
I need a way to wake up from this dream

She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Cut me like a piece of cake
She ate me up

She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Cut me like a piece of cake
She ate me up

Do do-do-do-do-do-do

One day and I am still a God
Two days and I am still on top
Ten days the fever settles in
One month and I'm her lunatic

I need another player on my team
I need a way to wake up from this dream

She cut me like a piece of cake
She cut me like a piece of cake
Cut me like a piece of cake
She ate me up

Do do-do-do-do-do-do

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo		aku melody 1-1#-2sus--.mp3	2016—2017		0:45	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   1 @79 AQ.mp3	2017—2018		0:49	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   4 verse melo @ 79 -3.mp3	2017—2018		2:26	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   5 verse lyrics @79 -3.mp3	2017—2018		2:26	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   7 @79 -3.mp3	2017—2018		2:02	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   8 @79 -3.mp3	2017—2018		2:38	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   9 @79 -3.mp3	2017—2018		2:38	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   10 talky @82 +1.mp3	2017—2018		1:57	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   11 @82 -3.mp3	2017—2018		2:32	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	piece of cake   12 zip @82 +0.mp3	2017—2018		2:09	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   13 long verse melo @84 +2.mp3	2017—2018		2:06	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   14 no verse voc @84 +2.mp3	2017—2018		2:06	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   15 vocals @84 +2 20 bars.mp3	2017—2018		0:57	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   18 @82 +0.mp3	2017—2018		3:13	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   19 v3 short chorus @82 +0.mp3	2017—2018		3:04	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   21 prod @83 +0.mp3	2017—2018		3:11	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	Piece of Cake   22 tag @83 +0.mp3	2017—2018		3:14	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years
Weezer(?)	Piece of Cake	PieceofCake Matty Ref 3 Alt LIM.mp3	2017—2018
Weezer(?)	Piece of Cake	PieceofCake Matty Ref 7 LIM.mp3	2017—2018
Weezer(?)	Piece of Cake	PieceofCake Matty Ref 8 Alt LIM.mp3	2017—2018
Weezer	Piece of Cake		2018	United Recording, Los Angeles, CA Federal Prism Studios, Los Angeles, CA	3:17	Weezer (The Black Album)
Rivers Cuomo	Piece of Cake	piece_2018_12_4_14_23_18.mp3	December 4, 2018		0:25	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years

See also

• List of Weezer songs
• List of Rivers Cuomo songs