Sugar Booger

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"Sugar Booger"
Sugar Booger cover
B-side by Weezer
Album Island in the Sun (UK Retail CD #2)
Released May 15, 2001
Format CD
Recorded December 2000, Cello Studios, Los Angeles, California
Length 4:05
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
RC# 535
COR# 227
Producer(s) Ric Ocasek
Status Officially released
Island in the Sun (UK Retail CD #2) track listing
"Island in the Sun"
(1)
"Sugar Booger"
(2)
"Brightening Day"
(3)
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"a) After The Love Has Gone Away"
(RC# 534)
"Sugar Booger"
(RC# 535)
"Don't Let Go"
(RC# 536)

"Sugar Booger" (aka "That's the Way" and "Hammer Time") is a b-side for the UK retail CD release of Island in the Sun.

Appearances

Overview

"Sugar Booger" was in early contention for the Green Album. The song was featured on a 2000 demo tape submitted by the band to Interscope/Geffen in hopes of receiving approval for a third album[1]. The song was one of fourteen Green sessions tracks leaked online prior to the album's release, in a shorter 3:40 edit than the final "Island in the Sun" B-side version, which clocks in at 4:05.

Another entry in the Catalog O' Riffs (#239) is labeled simply "Sugar Booger in A@118" (presumably, the same song in a different key and tempo). This variation remains unheard by fans.

Personnel

Audio

Lyrics

Break my spine, sugar booger
Break down and lose your sweet mind now
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Waste my time sweetie, beauty
Bust out the hammer-time moves y'all
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Every time you turn around
I just want to hit the ground
Locked up in your little world
Makes me feel so insecure
And now

Draw that line
Maybe, baby, we could get up and get get down
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Spank my plank, funky monkey
You, children, now you must bust out
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

Every time you turn around
I just want to hit the ground
Locked up in your little world
Makes me feel so insecure
And now

Show me now

Draw that line
Maybe, baby, we could get up and kick it down
'Cause that's the way that you wanna be
'Cause that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be
Yeah that's the way, that's the way that you wanna be

See also