Piece of Cake
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| 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 | |||||
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"Piece of Cake" is the fifth track from The Black Album. It was leaked online on February 26, 2019.
Appearances
Overview
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,[1] 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."[2] Cuomo has stated that the "Betty" mentioned in the lyrics was a nonagenarian neighbor who moved away.[3]
Audio
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
Known recordings
| Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
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| 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 |
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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
References
- ↑ Heater, Brian. "Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding" TechCrunch+ 25 November 2020. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-rivers-cuomo-finds-meaning-in-coding/
- ↑ Rivers Cuomo. Discord. 28 December 2021. File:Riverscuomo-discord-sprite.png
- ↑ Riverchat discussion; 2021. File:Riverchat pieceofcake.png
