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"Pig"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Weezer (The Red Album)
Released	June 11, 2008
Recorded	N/A
Length	4:02
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
RC#	N/A
COR#	N/A
Producer(s)	Weezer
Status	Officially released
Weezer (The Red Album) track listing
"Miss Sweeney" (11) "Pig" (12) "The Spider" (13)
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"?" (RC# ?) "Pig" (RC# ?) "?" (RC# ?)

'Pig" is the twelfth track off of "The Red Album (Deluxe Edition)".

Appearances

• Weezer (The Red Album) (Deluxe Edition)

Overview

"Pig" was the first new song heard by Weezer fans since Make Believe's release. It was leaked as an acoustic home demo on various music blogs in April of 2007. The metadata from "Pig" showed that it belonged on an eighteen-track demo album entitled Deliverance at Hand! (with "Pig" being the twelfth track). Weezer's recording of "Pig" was later released as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Weezer (The Red Album).

Inspiration

In June of 2006, Cuomo conducted an interview with Beliefnet, a spiritual website. In the interview, Rivers discusses reading Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. He mentions, "One thing that really struck me is, what he writes about for some reason comes across as so cruel. Like there's so little feeling of compassion or regret that he has to kill the animals to survive. I'm not sure what to make of it yet. The way he describes it is so cold...It never occurred to him that the suffering of the animals is something to worry about or to feel sorry about. And maybe that was just a product of the times or maybe some Christian philosophy that justifies it; I'm not sure. Really the thing that strikes me most about it is: Maybe there's something in me that's reacting to this and that maybe other people wouldn't notice it."

Although not confirmed, it is likely that this contributed to Cuomo's inspiration for "Pig," as it was written around this time period.

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
• Patrick Wilson – percussion
• Brian Bell – rhythm guitar
• Scott Shriner - bass guitar

Lyrics

<lyrics> When I was a baby I was so happy. I played with my friends in the mud. Wilbur and Jack and Otis and Beatty, We were a gang, you gotta believe me. Momma would scold us if we got too rough She didnt care, she was proud of us. I ran around and talked to the animals, Tellin' 'em stories of savage cannibals.

Then i got older and noticed a girl. At first i was sure I didn't exist to her. I sulked around but I didn't know why. Then she put her cheek on my shoulder and I Was lookin' at her and she was lookin' at me. We started to smile it was our destiny. Tina was her name. She was my cutie-pie. I forgot about the things that I used to like.

I spent all my time followin' her around. My friends all made the whip-lash sound. But they understood. They was happy for me and. And everyone clapped when I asked her to marry me. And she said "yes" and we felt so fine. We lost track of the passin' of time. Before I knew it we had our own babies: Gina and Shannon and Keebie and Gabe

But now I've got to die. I've lived a good life I've got no complaints. I'd like to thank farmer Pete. For bringing me scraps of food that i could eat. He always had a smile on his face. He didn't want to think of this day. It's finally here. It's finally here, oh.

Oo-oo, they called me Pig. Oo-oo, they called me Pig.

When I was a baby I was so happy. I played with my friends in the mud. </lyrics>

See also

• List of Weezer songs