Run Over by a Truck

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"Run Over By a Truck"
Run Over By a Truck cover
Album track by Weezer
Album Raditude (Deluxe Edition)
Released November 3, 2009
Length 3:33
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s) Jacknife Lee
Status Officially released
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Professional reviews
Raditude (Deluxe Edition) track listing
"Get Me Some"
(1)
"Run Over By a Truck "
(2)
"The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World"
(3)
Deliverance at Hand! track listing
"Respect"
(13)
"Run Over by a Truck"
(14)
"Why Can't You Shut Your Mouth?"
(15)

"Run Over by a Truck" is the second track on second disc of the Deluxe Edition of Raditude.

Overview

"Run Over by a Truck" appears as track two on the deluxe disc that comes with Raditude. The song was originally written in 2007 (as listed on Cuomo's 4 and 5 star demo list) and was likely a contender for The Red Album at some point, appearing on the demo compilation Deliverance at Hand!. The song was produced by Jacknife Lee. A slightly different earlier mix of the song leaked online in 2017.

Personnel

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Reception

"Run Over by a Truck" received a highly positive review from Teenage Victory Songs, being marked as "The Very Best."

Audio

This stream is viewable only in North America.

Lyrics

Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.

I used to sing songs at the break of the day
Zippity-doo-dah Zippity-ay
Workin' myself into a frenzy
But I don't do that no more no way
I used like to learn how to speak in Chinese
"O-Kudasai" means "Baby, would ya please"
Conjugate your verbs with the greatest of ease
But I fell down hard on my bended knees

I feel like I've been run over by a truck
I don't care much about anything
I'm happy to sing
I'm lackin' the passion to do anything
I feel like I've been run over by a truck
I don't care much about anything
So give me a ring
And tell me to wake up and do anything

I used to play B-ball down at the park
Runnin' up the sideline until it got dark
Outside step-over with my right foot
Push off with the outside of my left foot
I used to chat up the girls out in the club
Lookin' for one of 'em to give me some love
The show wasn't over till the dough-boy come
Old, young, fat, dumb, I loved everyone

Grandma never was a pushover
Ain't nobody try to step to her
She could teach a common hustler to dance in France
Till her plane came a-crashin' down
On the way to see the Cleveland Brown
She was scramblin' on fourth down
How I wish that I had been around

See also