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"'''Across the Sea'''" is the fifth track on ''[[Pinkerton]]''. | "'''Across the Sea'''" is the fifth track on ''[[Pinkerton]]''. | ||
==History== | |||
It is considered by many fans of early (1990s) Weezer to be one of, if not the best overall song the band has released.[1] Singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo wrote "Across The Sea" after receiving a letter from a Japanese girl during a depressing winter at Harvard University. 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."[2] When asked in 2006 about the girl, he commented that "I don't know anything about her and I've never contacted her."[3] The lyrics also make mention of Cuomo's adolescent consideration of becoming a monk to win the favor of older women, as well as the idea that his mother is responsible for his romantic shortcomings. | |||
The song's guitar solo has a relatively complex chord progression, during which the key modulates from G major to E major (the parallel major of the original key's relative minor). The following bridge remains in the key of E major, then modulates back to G for the final verse and chorus. | |||
In the beginning while the piano plays, you can hear a door open, Pat Wilson laugh, and then a bunch of random notes played on a nylon guitar. | |||
The song appears on Come On and Kick Me!: The String Quartet Tribute to Weezer and Only in Dreams: Classical Music Inspired by Weezer. | |||
==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||