Do You Wanna Get High?

"Do You Wanna Get High?" is a single released by Weezer on November 3, 2015. It is the fifth track from The White Album, although the album was still unannounced upon the song's release.

## Background

It was initially thought by some fans that the song may have originated in 2001. A song or idea is listed in the Catalog of Riffs from October 4 of 2001 as "D'ya Wanna Get High?" with a COR# of 351. Additionally, on Rivers Cuomo's genius.com annotation of the song, he noted that the song was "about me and my darling girlfriend in 2000/2001". Cuomo also noted that the same girlfriend was the subject of the songs "O Girlfriend" and "O Girl," noting that the former song contains a similar lyrical theme in one section ("Taking pills and mellowing out"). Additional annotations explain the inspiration of other lines within the song. The lyrics to the backing vocals near the end of the song were not listed in the annotations.

Cuomo made the following comment on the song's origins in the Weezer Fan Club Facebook group: "DYWGH verse/chorus is from 2014. Bridge is from 2015. (chords taken from a j-rock song called shangri-la i heard while on a japan tour with Scott & Rivers)." The song is question is "Shangri-La" by Japanese rock band Chatmonchy.

The song's title was previously used for a demo co-written with Daniel Brummel and Ryan Slegr and later renamed "Medicine."

"Do You Wanna Get High?" was released digitally a week after the previous single, "Thank God for Girls." In contrast to the latter song, which was seen as a departure from the style the band is known for, "Do You Wanna Get High?" was noted by fans as having something closer to the "classic Weezer sound." It debuted on November 2, 2015 on Beats 1 Radio during a band interview with Zane Lowe.

The song's chorus contains a reference to composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach.

The artwork used for the digital single is "Two Faces" by German psychedelic artist Pierre Schmidt (also known as "drømsjel").

## Music Videos

### Lyric Video

The lyric video for the song was directed by Scantron. It premiered on October 25, 2015 on YouTube.

### Official Music Video

The official music video, also directed by Scantron, premiered on November 16, 2015 on Vevo.

## Lyrics

[Intro] (Spoken)

Cue the feedback!

Cue the feedback...

[Verse 1]

Crush up the blue and inhale through your nose

Scrape every quark from the wood in the floor

[Chorus]

She said, "Do you wanna get high? Don’t eat no dinner tonight

I took a road trip to Mexico and scored a hundred count

Do you wanna get high? It’s like we’re falling in love

We can listen to Bacharach and stop at any point"

[Verse 2]

Now our bones start to ache as we cramp on the pot

And we fall to the floor with our face in a knot

[Chorus]

She said, "Do you wanna get high? Don’t eat no dinner tonight

I took a road trip to Mexico and scored a hundred count

Do you wanna get high? It’s like we’re falling in love

We can listen to Bacharach and stop at any point"

[Bridge]

Keep on doing what you do ‘cuz I’ll never get tired of you

Don’t need booze, ‘cuz I’ll never get tired of you

Stop the tape, kill the lights, close the drapes

And keep doing what you do, ‘cuz I’ll never get tired of you

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

She said, "Do you wanna get high? Don’t eat no dinner tonight

I took a road trip to Mexico and scored a hundred count

Do you wanna get high? It’s like we’re falling in love

We can listen to Bacharach and stop at any point"

[Outro]

Sleeping with Mother Theresa, drifting in a lone fantasia

Brahmin you recite the veda, beautiful as euthanasia...

## See Also

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