A Plan For U

Song Name: A Plan For U

Artist: DEVO

Appears On:

◦ "A Plan For U"  (3:11) - Hardcore Volume 2, Hardcore

◦ "A Plan For U (Early version)"  (2:27) - Art Devo 1973-1977

Year Written: 1974

Year Released:

◦ 1991 (Compilation version)

◦ 2023 (Box set version)

Years Performed: 1977 ^{setlist.fm stats}

Writing Credits: Gerald V. Casale

Sung By: Gerald V. Casale (Lead Vocals) / Mark Mothersbaugh (Spoken Intro)

Trivia / Info:

• The "extended edit" of APFU appeared on Booji Boy's Basement release D001 - Rare Demos & Unreleased Tracks (Disc 1) - before the official release.
• Performed in 1977 at the Starwood in West Hollywood, California, as the closing song in Devo's set.
• Mark's spoken intro, "a plan for u," is heard before a short edit of Freedom Of Choice (Early Version) (which was sourced from a bootleg MP3 that also contains the full 8 minute long early version of the song FOC).

Onstage Behavior: Unknown

Lyrics:

      (spoken:) 
     
     [Plan for u    A plan for u]
     
      (sung:)
     
     Weave to the left bob to the right
     
     Or you'll be a flat tire on the freeway of life
     
     Go get active, change your luck
     
     Lay with yatta yattas and treat em rough
     
     Come your turkey, drop your load
     
     Please don't let the tin man get your goat
     
     Stay horizontal don't look back
     
     If you do you'll give your mom and dad
     
     A heart attack
     
     Check your oil change your mind
     
     Keep it up like a pup
     
     Your battery will go before u know what's up
     
     Look for a socket wear flesh-colored pants
     
     Big babies go the distance in wrap-around fat
     
     Dig your diddle clean your nose
     
     When trouble gets behind you keep your
     
     Back door closed
     
     Okay so you're skinny its a hard-edged game
     
     Jellymen are weak links on the daisy chain
     
     Sleep on you belly, reach for the sky
     

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