Getting By

"Getting By" is the first track and first single from the Rentals' 1999 album, Seven More Minutes.
===Appearances===
*Season's Greetings from Your Pals at Maverick (1998)
*Seven More Minutes (1999)
*Getting By (promotional releases)
*Live in Japan (live bootleg)
*Little Russell Street (alternate mix)
*Convention 1999: Grave Expectations (1999)
*Brain Waves (1999)
*CMJ New Music Monthly Volume 69 May 1999 (May 1999 promo)
*Almost Forever Volume 3 (Warp Magazine, 2000 promo)
*Asian Kung-Fu Generation Presents: Nano–Mugen Compilation 2006 (2006)
==Overview==
As with all tracks on Seven More Minutes, "Getting By" was written by Matt Sharp while spending time in Barcelona, Spain.Seven More Minutes, liner notes "Getting By" was released as promotional-only CD"Getting By" Discogs https://www.discogs.com/The-Rentals-Getting-By/release/7177874 and cassette@therentals "#tbt when the record company gave out these free promotional “getting by” ca-singles, they accidentally included the incorrect version of the b-side “hello, hello” with extra petra haden vocals over the instrumental section of the song." Twitter. 28 March 2019. https://twitter.com/therentals/status/1111405055196815360?s=20 singles. The cassette release features a version of "Hello, Hello" with additional Petra Haden vocals. An alternate mix done by Chris Shaw was included on the demo and outtake compilation Little Russell Street.
The song’s opening chant of “kawaba, kawaba, kawaba” was inspired by a ritual performed by director , who employed the ritual of chanting the nonsense word “puwaba” three times, for luck, with his crew at the beginning of every production (as seen in the 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse).@_mattsharp Instagram. 14 April 2024. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5wqCqMvcSm/?igsh=ejNmeWg1eGoxbWZnSyme, Rachel. “ Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence” The New Yorker. 22 January 2024. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/sofia-coppola-profile 
==Personnel==
*Matt Sharp - vocals, bass, Moog, extra guitars
*Kevin March - drums
*Rod Cervera - electric and acoustic guitars
*Jim Richards - Moog and arp synthesizers
*Petra Haden - vocals
==Track listing==
	
Songs from the New Album Seven More Minutes
*Origin: United States
*Tracklist:
**A1 "Getting By"
**A2 "Hello, Hello"
**B1 "Getting By"
**B2 "Hello, Hello"	
*Notes:
**Promotional cassette
**"Hello, Hello" accidentally features extra Petra Haden vocals over the instrumental section
	
*Origin: United States
*Label: Maverick, Reprise Records
*Catalog no: PRO-CD-9375 
*Tracklist:
#"Getting By (Radio Version)"	
*Notes:
**CD promo
==Music video==
The music video for "Getting By" was directed by Jason Ruscio, who had previously edited the video for "Friends of P."therentals.com. Archived by Wayback Machine, 5 January 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070105134919/http://therentals.com/return/ from the original: http://therentals.com/return/ The video was shot in Barcelona, Spain on March 18, 1999.https://web.archive.org/web/20010322220747/http://www.sonicnet.com/artists/ai_singlestory.jhtml?id=512830&ai_id=741 "Rentals To Shoot Next Video". March 16, 1999. SonicNet. Archived on the Internet Archive.
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==Lyrics==
Kawaba, Kawaba, Kawaba, hey!
I know a girl, lives off the coast of Spain
Twenty-one in the prime of her life
Friends are the most important things she's got
And she don't need much to get by
It's been a long long time since I felt that way
Maybe all the way back to high school 
But, lately, I've felt like an old fat man
With her I lie and say I'm a young fool 
And we don't really care about much, no
We don't need to lie
We got nothing in common that I can see 
We drink on, we drink on, we drink on
And get by
Well, she don't care too much for vegetables 
And she hates rude American men
Questions if I'm balding and I deny 
And she laughs and she laughs with her friends, oh
But I don't really care too much, no
I don't need to lie
We got nothing in common that I can see
We drink on, we drink on, we drink on
And get by, getting by
We'll get by, getting by
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
She don't really care about me, no
There's no reason to lie
We got nothing in common and we both agree 
To drink on, and drink on, and drink on
And, yeah, we don't really care about much
We don't really care too much 
We don't really care about much 
We drink on, we drink on, we drink on
And get by
We're getting by
==See also==
*List of Matt Sharp songs
==References==
Category: The Rentals songs
Category: Matt Sharp
Category:Songs on Seven More Minutes
Category:The Rentals songs produced by Matt Sharp