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 *''[[SZNZ: Winter]]'' (2022)
 ==Overview==
-The song title "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep" was originally discovered by fans in the database for a Weezer set list survey hosted on Cuomo's website in June of 2022.
+{{Rivers Cuomo quote|That one was very challenging because initially, it was a very, very quiet, peaceful song about about growing old, the five senses fading, and just falling into this sleep that eventually is death and oblivion, but very peacefully. And so that’s what the original song is like. And if you come across the bootleg from our performance at The Troubadour a few months ago, you’ll hear something closer to that.
-Weezer (under the [[Goat Punishment]] moniker) performed ''SZNZ: Winter'' in its entirety (including "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep") [[Weezer concert: 09/19/2022|at a secret show in West Hollywood]] on [[September 19]], [[2022]], months ahead of the EP's release.
+But then — and this is what usually happens to me when I’m working on a Weezer record — as we play songs over and over, they start to pick up in energy. And we just have this instinct to have a really glorious, uplifting sound. So, we were trying to combine that with what was kind of the opposite, the soporific sleepy song that it originally was. And in addition to that, I realized this is the last song in this four part epic masterpiece, this tetralogy. And who knows, maybe someday we’ll play it live front to back from Spring to Winter. And I know when we get to the end of that epic show, 28 songs, we’re going to want to go out on an up note and have it be really energetic.
-When asked in an interview with Consequence<ref>Ragusa, AP "Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Discusses the Sad, Elliott Smith-ness of SZNZ: Winter" ''Consequence'', 21 December 2022 https://consequence.net/2022/12/weezer-interview-sznz-rivers-cuomo/</ref>, [[Rivers Cuomo]] said of the song:
+So that was the challenge, combining those two contradictory impulses. So you’ll hear elements of acoustic fingerpicking, and this orchestra and this women’s choir, and the lyrics are quite beautiful and peaceful. But the song just keeps picking up and up. And it’s quite rousing by the end.|''Consequence'' interview, December 2022<ref>Ragusa, AP "Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Discusses the Sad, Elliott Smith-ness of SZNZ: Winter" ''Consequence'', 21 December 2022 https://consequence.net/2022/12/weezer-interview-sznz-rivers-cuomo/</ref>}}
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-''“That one was very challenging because initially, it was a very, very quiet, peaceful song about about growing old, the five senses fading, and just falling into this sleep that eventually is death and oblivion, but very peacefully. And so that’s what the original song is like. And if you come across the bootleg from our performance at The Troubadour a few months ago, you’ll hear something closer to that.''
-''But then — and this is what usually happens to me when I’m working on a Weezer record — as we play songs over and over, they start to pick up in energy. And we just have this instinct to have a really glorious, uplifting sound. So, we were trying to combine that with what was kind of the opposite, the soporific sleepy song that it originally was. And in addition to that, I realized this is the last song in this four part epic masterpiece, this tetralogy. And who knows, maybe someday we’ll play it live front to back from Spring to Winter. And I know when we get to the end of that epic show, 28 songs, we’re going to want to go out on an up note and have it be really energetic.''
+The song title "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep" was originally discovered by fans in the database for a Weezer set list survey hosted on Cuomo's website in June of 2022.
-''So that was the challenge, combining those two contradictory impulses. So you’ll hear elements of acoustic fingerpicking, and this orchestra and this women’s choir, and the lyrics are quite beautiful and peaceful. But the song just keeps picking up and up. And it’s quite rousing by the end.”''</blockquote>
+Weezer (under the [[Goat Punishment]] moniker) performed ''SZNZ: Winter'' in its entirety (including "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep") [[Weezer concert: 09/19/2022|at a secret show in West Hollywood]] on [[September 19]], [[2022]], months ahead of the EP's release.
 ==Personnel==
 *[[Rivers Cuomo]] — lead vocals, guitar
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 Take me far away
 And I will cease to be
+Fall into the deep and dreamless sleep</poem>}}{{Lyric box|
+===Demo version===
+<poem>Now the phone has stopped ringing 'round the clock
+They’ve forgotten me
+And I realize that it’s dumb to try
+So I let them be
+I can’t make out words on the page
+I get confused by all the rage
+La-di-da-di-da-di-da-di, I’m slippin' into
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The night that killed the day
+And takes fast hold of me
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+Now the sun goes down and the flurries fall
+On my lonely home
+I could watch tube, read some Dr. Seuss
+But I probably won’t
+I can’t recall last Saturday
+It’s hard to hear what people say
+La-di-da-di-da-di-da-di, I’m slippin' into
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The night that killed the day
+And takes fast hold of me
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+I remember you well
+How you loved the holidays
+How you wrapped up the gifts
+And you left them on display
+I remember the smell
+Of the breath that gave you life
+Like a sweet sugar plum
+On the frozen Christmas night
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The night that killed the day
+And takes fast hold of me
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+The deep and dreamless sleep
+Take me far away
+Where all things cease to be
+The deep and dreamless sleep
 Fall into the deep and dreamless sleep</poem>}}