Possibilities

"Possibilities"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Maladroit
Released	May 14, 2002
Recorded	December 2001—January 2002 at Cello Studios, Los Angeles
Length	2:00
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
RC#	637
COR#	314
Producer(s)	Weezer, Rod Cervera, Chad Bamford
Status	Officially released
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"Jeepers Creepers" (RC# 636) "Possibilities - dbl Verse Intro" (RC# 637) "Gone to Stay" (RC# 638)
Maladroit track listing
13 tracks "American Gigolo" "Dope Nose" "Keep Fishin'" "Take Control" "Death and Destruction" "Slob" "Burndt Jamb" "Space Rock" "Slave" "Fall Together" "Possibilities" "Love Explosion" "December"

"Possibilities" (formerly "Gone to Stay") is the eleventh track on Maladroit.

Appearances

• Released on weezer.com
• Maladroit (2002)
• Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years (2020)

Overview

“Possibilities” is the closest the album comes to a genre exercise, an ideal version of Cali beach-town hardcore. —Ann Powers, Rolling Stone

"Possibilities" was written by Rivers Cuomo in 2001. It is first known to have been demoed as a band (under the title "Gone to Stay") during recording sessions at Sage and Sound Studios in Hollywood in September of that year. An MP3 of that demo was shared with fans on weezer.com, as were in-progress recordings at Cello Studios during the Maladroit studio sessions. Early demos by Rivers Cuomo were released as part of the digital compilation Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years in 2020.

"Possibilities" is currently the earliest-released Weezer album track to have never, to date, been performed live.

Personnel

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

Lyrics

(Give it all away)
(Give it all away)

Oh, oh, possibilities
Take you home with me in your arms

I never thought I'd do that
Take me all the way
And let your body say

Oh, oh, take me by the hand
Let me be the man in your arms

I never thought I'd do that
Take me all the way
And let your body say

Oh, you're gone (Give it all away)
Oh, you're gone (Give it all away)
You're gone
You're gone to stay (Give it all away)

I never thought I'd do that
Take me all the way
And let your body say

Oh, you're gone (Give it all away)
Oh, you're gone (Give it all away)
You're gone
You're gone to stay (Give it all away)

Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
I need you
I bleed you now

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	Possibilities	314.1 Possibilities.mp3	2001		1:58	Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years
Rivers Cuomo	Possibilities	314.2 Possibilities.mp3	2001		2:03	Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years
Weezer	Gone to Stay	WEEZER-2001-9-6-SnSDemos_Gone_To_Stay_314.mp3	September 6, 2001	Sage and Sound Recording, Los Angeles, CA	2:02	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Possibilities	WEEZER-2001-12-22_11Possibilities_314.mp3	December 22, 2001	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:06	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Possibilities	WEEZER-2001-12-30_04Possibilities_314.mp3	December 30, 2001	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:03	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Possibilities	WEEZER-2002-01-04_05Possibilities_314.mp3	January 4, 2001	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:05	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Possibilities	WEEZER-2002-01-22_Possibilities_314.mp3	January 22, 2001	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:08	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Possibilities	WEEZER-2002-01-23_Possibilities_314.mp3	January 23, 2001	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:08	Released on weezer.com
Weezer	Possibilities		December 2001—February 2002	Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA	2:00	Maladroit

See also

• List of Weezer songs
• List of Rivers Cuomo songs