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Devo – Gotta Serve Somebody (live) (2000) | Track profile | Dork

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Gotta Serve Somebody (live)

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Gotta Serve Somebody (live)

Release date: 2000

From Recombo DNA

About This Track

"Gotta Serve Somebody (live)" is a track by Devo, from the album Recombo DNA, released 2000. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Devo.

About the Artist

Devo

Devo

Lyrics

Gotta Serve Somebody (live)

You might be an ambassador

To England or France

You might like to mumble

You might like to dance

You might be the heavyweight

Champion of the world

You might be a socialite

With a long string of pearls

But you gotta serve somebody

Yes you got to serve somebody

Well it may be the devil or it may be the lord

But you gotta serve somebody

Well you might be a punk rocker

Dancin' on the stage

Money drops at your command

Women in a cage

You might be a businessman

A high-colonic freak

They might call you doctor

And they might call you chief

But you gotta serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Yes you got to serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Well it may be the devil or it may be the lord

But you gotta serve somebody

Well you might be a state trooper

Or some other kind of jerk

You might be the president

Of some big t-v network

You might be rich or poor

You might be blind or lame

You might be livin' in another country

Underneath another name

But you gotta serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Yes you got to serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Well it may be the devil or it may be the lord

But you gotta serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Serve somebody

Serve somebody

Well you might like to wear latex

You might like to wear silk

You might like to eat big macs

You might like to eat milk

You might like to drink yoohoo

You might like to drink bread

You may be sleepin' on a floor somewhere

Or in a king size bed

But you gotta serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Yes you got to serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Well it may be the devil or it may be the lord

But you gotta serve somebody

[serve somebody]

Said you gotta serve somebody

[serve somebody]

I said you serve somebody

[serve somebody]

You gotta serve somebody

Bye-bye

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Track details

From Recombo DNA

2000

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Release year

2000

—Race of Doom (demo)
—Love Is Stronger Than Dirt
—I Desire (demo)
—Luv & Such
—Gotta Serve Somebody (live)
—Before Baby Doll There Was Satan with Mark Mothersbaugh
—Big Adventure (rough mix)
—Bushwhacked (prosthetic version)
—Here to Go (alternate version rough mix)
—It's Not Nuclear Bombs You Must Fear with Booji Boy
—Happy Guy (demo)
—No Noise (rough mix)
—Recombo DNA (Demo)
—The Only One (demo)
—Ton 'O Luv (Instrumental Demo)
—Make Me Dance
—Mind Games (Demo)
—Baby Doll (demo)
—Pity You (demo)
—Beautiful World (demo)
—Big Mess (demo)
—Plain Truth (demo)
—The Somewhere Suite (Studio Version Demo)
—Time Bomb
—Some Things Don't Change (rough mix)
—The 4th Dimension (alternate version rough mix)
—I Saw Jesus
—Some Things Never Change (demo)

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