I'm a good guy for a gal,
So won't you look my palm over?
I've got time for a chat,
So won't you tell me my future?
I'm gonna break down at fifty,
And I'm not quite a stallion.
I'm a good guy for a gal,
And I'm mentally slipping.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Oh boy, find out what's up with me.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
What's that ya' see?
Tell me more of what's gonna be.
If you're friends with P.,
Well, then you're friends with me.
If you're down with P.,
Well, then you're down with me.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends of P.
Friends...
Somebody's fame and fortune is gonna come to me early.
I get two loves in my life, and I'm dying at ninety.


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Friends of P. Lyrics as written by Matthew Kelly Sharp

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    I work for an entertainment magazine and I spoke with Matt Sharp yesterday. Here is what he told me about the song:

    "It is about Ric Ocasek wife Paulina Porizkova. Ric produced the first weezer record. His wife would come down while we were recording and she would do these palm readings. She was a very bright woman, and she would always do these palm readings for fun. She said the only people that have ever written her a song…she was a supermodel in the 80’s…the only people were these bad heavy metal bands…that night I went in the hotel that Pat Wilson and I were staying at and we said we had to bring her in and write a song about her for fun."

    rpouloson September 07, 2007   Link
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    Actually, P is Paulina Porizkova, Ric Ocasek's model wife. Ric produced weezer's first album (the Blue Album, and later went on to produce the Green Album as well) Of course Matt Sharp was in weezer then and so he wrote a little ditty as a tribute to Paulina.

    WeezerChicon May 10, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    be a friend of p.

    weezerific:cutleryon June 06, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    great song

    teKion August 28, 2002   Link
  • 0
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    Towards the end of my senior year in high school myself and a couple friends were filming a student film about a student who dies drunk driving. While filming the scene where he passes out at the wheel, my friend leaned on the steering wheel, careening his Jeep Cherokee down the cliff we were driving parallel to. This is the song we were playing. (btw the footage we got for our movie was great and we didn't die)

    ChaosFluro24on August 30, 2002   Link
  • 0
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    I'm down with P.

    bullyingthejukeboxon April 28, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    What the hell means "p"?

    tommibon November 18, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    P was the very attractive wife of one of the producers of the Rentals first album.

    jasonporter16on December 15, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    this song is freakin sic but why would he sing about rics wife? what the...who cares about her

    stryker311on June 28, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    Well, the lyrics suggets it's a sarcastic, or possibly naive song about having your palm read.

    TheSilverNobleon November 06, 2005   Link

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