We Gotta Get Paid
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| Demo by Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Album | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | |
| Released | December 29, 2020 | |
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | |
| Status | Released | |
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This song is part of the "We Gotta Get Paid" lineage of songs
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- "Shake Me Down" redirects here. For the similarly-titled demo, see "Please Don't Shake Me Down."
"We Gotta Get Paid" (also known as "We're Gonna Get Paid") is a demo by Rivers Cuomo. The song was originally demoed in consideration for what would eventually become Weezer's ninth album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The demo was released as part of the digital compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years on December 29, 2020.
Appearances
- Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years (2020)
Overview
"We Gotta Get Paid" is a reworking of the 1999 Cuomo demo "And If You Go It's Natural."
Lyrics
We Gotta Get Paid (ver. 4)
Get up for work
Put on your clothes
Where are your shoes?
Heaven only knows
We're late again
We got no friends
And then we die
That's where this story ends
We got to go, sugar
Don't get stranded in the quagmire
This is our lucky day
We gotta get paid
Relax yourself
It makes you fresh
It's Friday night
Trash another desk
Go heal yourself
With magic bomb
The world could end
And still we would feel calm
We got to go, sugar
Don't get stranded in the quagmire
This is our lucky day
We gotta get paid
We gotta get paid
We gotta get paid
We gotta get paid
We got to go, sugar
Don't get stranded in the quagmire
This is our lucky day
We gotta get paid
We're poor as fuck
We got no luck
When God came down
He skipped over our town
And so it goes
From week to week
We do our best
To turn another cheek
We got to go, sugar
Don't get stranded in the quagmire
This is our lucky day
We're gonna get paid (heave, ho)
We gotta paid (heave, ho)
Known recordings
| Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
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| For previous demos, see "And If You Go It's Natural." | |||||||
| Rivers Cuomo | Shake Me Down | shake_me_down_2014_2_24_10_32_56.mp3 | February 24, 2014 | 5:27 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | We Gotta Get Paid | We Gotta Get Paid.mp3 | 2011-2014 | 2:53 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | We Gotta Get Paid | We Gotta Get Paid 4.mp3 | 2011-2014 | 2:47 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | We're Gonna Get Paid | We're Gonna Get Paid 4.mp3 | 2011-2014 | 2:47 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||