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| Artist = Rivers Cuomo | | Artist = Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Album = Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | | Album = Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Released = [[December 18]], [[2007]] ([[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo|Alone I]])<br>[[2020]] ([[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years|Alone IX]]) | | Released = [[December 18]], [[2007]] ([[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo|''Alone I'']])<br>[[November 22]], [[2020]] ([[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years|''Alone IX'']]) | ||
| Recorded = Spring 2004 | | Recorded = Spring 2004 | ||
| Length = 4:02 | | Length = 4:02 | ||
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*''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]'' (2020) | *''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]'' (2020) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
{{Alone liner notes|In 2004, a particular style of song was calling me again, I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to write melodies, giant, huge, beautiful soaring melodies. I especially liked to compose at the piano, where the melodies could flow beyond the constraints of my limited voice, and my left hand could explore the pleasures of melodic counterpoint in the bass line. I started taking music composition lessons from Bruce Reich at UCLA. | {{Alone liner notes|In 2004, a particular style of song was calling me again, I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to write melodies, giant, huge, beautiful soaring melodies. I especially liked to compose at the piano, where the melodies could flow beyond the constraints of my limited voice, and my left hand could explore the pleasures of melodic counterpoint in the bass line. I started taking music composition lessons from Bruce Reich at UCLA. | ||
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I had written a beautiful chorus melody on the piano a few months before and was wondering what to do with it until I met the L.A. Philharmonic woman and then bam, "I was made for you". | I had written a beautiful chorus melody on the piano a few months before and was wondering what to do with it until I met the L.A. Philharmonic woman and then bam, "I was made for you". | ||
I had Weezer's engineer, Chad, come down to SIR and get out pro recording gear set up to record this song. But once I started recording the vocals, I asked him to leave, because... I wanted to be alone.}} | I had Weezer's engineer, Chad, come down to SIR and get out pro recording gear set up to record this song. But once I started recording the vocals, I asked him to leave, because... I wanted to be alone.|''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone liner notes|liner notes]]}} | ||
According to the [[Recording History - Page 14|Weezer Recording History]], "I Was Made for You" was first demoed acoustically as in February of [[2004]]. The version of "I Was Made For You" from ''[[Alone]]'' is listed in that album's liner notes as having been recorded in Spring of [[2004]]. The song was thereafter reworked under the title "[[Someone Who Can Love]]" and then "[[Save Me (2004 song)|Save Me]]." The latter was recorded by [[Weezer]] throughout the production of ''[[Make Believe]]''. The song was finished in October of 2004 at Grandmaster Recorders Ltd., though it was cut from the final track list and thus received no final mix. Several solo pre-production demos of "I Was Made for You" were released in [[2020]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''. | |||
The chorus to "I Was Made for You" was later re-appropriated into the bridge to the song "[[It's Always Summer in Bikini Bottom]]", released in [[2021]] as part of the soundtrack to the film ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SpongeBob_Movie:_Sponge_on_the_Run The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run]''. | |||
==Known recordings== | |||
{{Known recordings header}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|I Was Made for You|09 610 I Was Made For You 2004-02-06.mp3|[[February 6]], [[2004]]|S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA|4:02|''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|I Was Made for You|10 610 I Was Made For You.mp3|[[February 20]], [[2004]]|S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA|4:02|''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|I Was Made for You|05 610 I Was Made For You.mp3|[[May 18]], [[2004]]|S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA|3:58|''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|I Was Made for You|04 610 I Was Made For You.mp3|[[June 4]], [[2004]]|S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA|3:50|''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''|Alternate lyrics}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|I Was Made for You|I Was Made For You.mp3|Spring [[2004]]|S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA|4:02| | |||
*''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' | |||
*''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings note|For subsequent demos, see "[[Save Me (2004 song)|Save Me]]" and "[[It's Always Summer in Bikini Bottom]]"}} | |||
{{Known recordings footer}} | |||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
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==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
{{Lyric box| | |||
<poem> | <poem>Little one, how long I've waited here | ||
Little one, how long I've waited here | |||
Waited for so many lonely years | Waited for so many lonely years | ||
Nobody ever could make me smile | Nobody ever could make me smile | ||
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Remind me who I am inside | Remind me who I am inside | ||
Remind me who I am inside | Remind me who I am inside | ||
</poem> | </poem>}}{{Lyric box| | ||
====2004 | ====[[June 4]], [[2004]] demo==== | ||
<poem> | <poem>I don't know what I can say to you | ||
I don't know what I can say to you | |||
Nothing I say feels like it is true | Nothing I say feels like it is true | ||
I am so sorry for how things were | I am so sorry for how things were | ||
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No one is ever misunderstood | No one is ever misunderstood | ||
But | But nothing works that way | ||
Nothing works that way | Nothing works that way | ||
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Tell me how the story ends | Tell me how the story ends | ||
Be happy | Be happy if you can | ||
I wish the best things for you | I wish the best things for you | ||
Be happy | Be happy if you can | ||
I'll always love your soul | I'll always love your soul | ||
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Tell me how the story ends | Tell me how the story ends | ||
Tell me how the story ends | Tell me how the story ends | ||
</poem> | </poem>}} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | *[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||