Weezer – Across the Sea Lyrics

Track 5 on Pinkerton
4. Why Bother? 6. The Good Life
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[Verse 1]
You are:
Eighteen year-old girl
Who live in small city in Japan
And you heard me on the radio
About one year ago
And you wanted to know
All about me
And my hobbies
My favorite food
And my birthday

[Hook]
Why are you so far away from me?
I need help
And you're way across the sea
I could never touch you
I think it would be wrong
I've got your letter
You've got my song

[Verse 2]
They don't make stationery like this where I'm from
So fragile, so refined
So I sniff and I lick your envelope
And fall to little pieces
Every time I wonder
What clothes you wear to school
I wonder how you decorate your room
I wonder how you touch yourself
And curse myself for being across the sea

[Hook]

[Bridge]
At 10, I shaved my head
And tried to be a monk
I thought the older women would like me if I did
You see, ma
I'm a good little boy (good little boy)
It's all your fault, momma
It's all your fault!
Goddamn, this business is really lame
I gotta live on an island to find the juice
So you send me your love from all around the world
As if I could live on
Words and dreams and a million screams
Oh, how I need a hand in mine to feel...

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Track 5 on Pinkerton
4. Why Bother? 6. The Good Life
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About Across the Sea

Cuomo wrote “Across The Sea” after receiving a fan letter from Japan. A young girl wrote to him, asking several questions about his everyday life during the depressing winter he spent at Harvard University in 1995. Some of these questions actually appear in the song, as the opening lyrics show. On his relationship with the girl, Cuomo remarked, “When I got the letter, I fell in love with her. It was such a great letter. I was very lonely at the time, but at the same time I was very depressed that I would never meet her. Even if I did see her, she was probably some fourteen-year-old girl, who didn’t speak English.”

The album is named after a character in the opera Madame Butterfly. The album, and this song in particular, is loosely based on the opera, which is about an American military officer who goes to Japan and falls in love with a geisha.

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