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Not to be confused with "Happiness Together".

"Happy Together" is a the sixth track from the 1967 album of the same name by The Turtles. The song was covered by Weezer at various points in the band's career.

Overview

When Spike Jonze was finishing his film Adaptation in early 2002, he asked Weezer to record "Happy Together" for inclusion in the film. The band learned to play the song during soundcheck before a show in Barcelona and demoed the song a few weeks later during the the early sessions for the band's planned fifth album. Ultimately, Jonze decided to use The Turtles' original recording in the final cut. Said Jonze:

"With every little piece in the film, we experimented endlessy to find the balance, and that is why we were in the editing room for 13 months. So thank you again for participating in our search. I still listen to the acoustic version you did in the hotel. It’s really sad and pretty." [1]

Weezer's studio version from that period remains unreleased, though a live soundboard recording was released on the official site, and is frequently traded digitally online. The date of the recording is unknown.

In 2018, Rivers Cuomo added the song to the setlist of his solo acoustic shows with a snippet of Green Day's "Longview" in the bridge. Later the same year, on the 2018 Weezer and Pixies Summer Tour, the band started covering the song with the Green Day snippet. The song finally appeared as an official studio recording on The Teal Album in 2019.

Videos

2002 Soundboard recording

2018 Rivers Cuomo performance

Personnel

Lyrics

Imagine me and you

I do

I think about you day and night

It's only right

To think about the girl you love

And hold her tight

So happy together



If I should call you up

Invest a dime

And you say you belong to me

And ease my mind

Imagine how the world would be

So very fine

So happy together



I can't see me loving nobody but you

For all my life

When you're with me

Maybe the skies'll be blue

For all my life



Me and you, and you and me

No matter how they toss the dice

It has to be

The only one for me is you

And you for me

So happy together



I can't see me loving nobody but you

For all my life

When you're with me

Maybe the skies'll be blue

For all my life



Happy together

Happy together

How is the weather?

So happy together

We're happy together