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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Notable about this song is that the speaking at the beginning of the song was a foreign language radio station that one of the band's amps had picked up during the recording of the album.{{Citation needed}} This song started its life as the [[Daniel Brummel and the Contraband]] song "[[If I Only Had Some Courage]]". | Notable about this song is that the speaking at the beginning of the song was a foreign language radio station that one of the band's amps had picked up during the recording of the album.{{Citation needed}} This song started its life as the [[Daniel Brummel and the Contraband]] song "[[If I Only Had Some Courage]]". | ||
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From a fan email with [[Daniel Brummel]][https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Daniel_Brummel_Around_the_World.PNG]: | |||
<blockquote>The sequential chord progression in the B section proceeds around the diatonic harmony by bass motion in fifths — a “circle of fifths” type progression. When I first showed it to Ryen, when we hit that section, he said “around the world!” which I connected via wordplay to the Jules Verne novel, in the same playful sense of “one-upmanship” that gave us “Rock and Roll Part Three.”</blockquote>[[File:1200px-Circle of fifths deluxe 4.png|thumb|Graphical representation.]] | |||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
<youtube>1YIKfsoOFYo</youtube> | <youtube>1YIKfsoOFYo</youtube> | ||