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===Overview===
===Overview===


'''The Futurescope Trilogy''' is a three-part song from Weezer's album [[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]. It is found on tracks 11, 12, and 13.
'''The Futurescope Trilogy''' is a three-part grouping of songs from Weezer's album [[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]. It is found on tracks 11, 12, and 13. An early version of the album, leaked in 2017, features the three songs as one track, titled "'''Wasteland / My Mystery / Resurrection'''". The exact meaning of the term "Futurescope" is not known, but the [[Everything Will Be Alright in the End - Teasers|YouTube teasers]] for the album prominently feature an oscilloscope-like device that appears to show events happening at various points in history within the album's narrative universe.


==Track Listing==
==Track Listing==
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===Part I: The Waste Land===
===Part I: The Waste Land===
This part is instrumental. However, in [[Everything Will Be Alright in the End|the album]]'s fold-out lyric booklet, the track is listed with the phrase "Lasciate ogne Speranza, voi ch'intrate". This translates from Italian as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." This is a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Vestibule_of_Hell the inscription on the Gates of Hell in Dante's ''Inferno''].
This part is instrumental. However, in [[Everything Will Be Alright in the End|the album]]'s fold-out lyric booklet, the track is listed with the phrase "Lasciate ogne Speranza, voi ch'intrate". This translates from Italian as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." This is a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Vestibule_of_Hell the inscription on the Gates of Hell in Dante's ''Inferno''].
===Part II: Anonymous===
===Part II: Anonymous===
<poem>
<poem>
I don't even know your name
I don't even know your name
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What to call you
What to call you
</poem>
</poem>
===Part III: Return to Ithaka===
===Part III: Return to Ithaka===
 
This part, like "The Waste Land", is an instrumental.
This part, like The Waste Land, is instrumental.
 
[[Category:Weezer songs]]
[[Category:Weezer songs]]
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Ric Ocasek]]
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Ric Ocasek]]