Work To Do
Written by Adam Schlesinger, ©2006
Found on Here & Now.

Well it's a tough job but someone's gotta do it
Stickin' it out not givin' in to it
When everybody's givin' up on me and you
And if we're gonna make it baby
If we're gonna make it baby
We've still got some work to do

Well it didn't go down quite the way we planned it
We made mistakes, took some things for granted
We've come this far we've got to see it through
And if we're gonna make it baby
If we're gonna make it baby
We've still got some work to do

And we've got long hours and late nights ahead of us now
But if we try we just might
Make it all right
It might all work out somehow

Well it's a tough job we didn't ask for it
Takin' what's breakin' and tryin' to restore it
It won't be easy what else is new
And if we're gonna make it baby
Yeah if we're gonna make it baby
We've still got some work to do
We've still got some work to do
We've still got some work to do

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Gerry Beckley: I had been emailing Adam (Schlesinger) back and forth for about a year and a half, sending songs and getting his comments. That really was the genesis of this whole project. At one point, I said, “Where do you think we take this from here?” Adam said, “I think we ought to cut a couple of things and see how it goes.”

We felt that if I was gonna come to New York to cut a couple of things that we should do one of mine and one of his. We picked “Work To Do” as a very strong example of a good Fountains Of Wayne type of song. It has very strong pop elements and a great lyric. We were trying to make that link with our two bands and “Work To Do” is a good example of that.


Last Revised: 17 January 2007