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{{Featured song code|songname=Longtime Sunshine|spotify=https://open.spotify.com/track/0AHLmGeECGsB8oZT4mMFF1|youtube=|image=Rivers Cuomo Alone.jpg}} | |||
"'''Longtime Sunshine'''" (sometimes rendered as "'''Long Time Sunshine'''") is a song written by [[Rivers Cuomo]]. It is the seventh track on ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | |||
The song was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in December of [[1993]] or January of [[1994]], while visiting his mother for Christmas at her home in Connecticut. The title is borrowed from from a lyric of 1968 song "[[Wikipedia:A Very Cellular Song|A Very Cellular Song]]" by the psychedelic-folk group [[Wikipedia:The Incredible String Band|the Incredible String Band]]. Cuomo's parents would sing this refrain to him as a lullaby when he was young. | |||
Cuomo later retrofitted "Longtime Sunshine" as a song in consideration for a planned (albeit ultimately unfinished) "rock-opera" concept album, ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''. Early drafts of ''SFTBH'' featured "Longtime Sunshine" as the closing track, intended to be sung by Cuomo as the story's protagonist, [[Jonas]]. Though ''SFTBH'' would ultimately be scrapped, [[Karl Koch]] has noted that "Longtime Sunshine" was originally meant to close ''[[Pinkerton]].'' "[[Butterfly]]" was recorded on the final day of recording at Sound City in June of [[1996]] and used instead. Cuomo revisited the song in [[1997]], recording a home demo in September of that year. During a [[Memories Tour]] [[Weezer concert: 06/07/2011 - Austin, TX|concert in Austin, Texas]] on [[June 7]], [[2011]], Weezer performed the song live for the first time, featuring a new arrangement. The song was played live a number of additional times, including on [[the Weezer Cruise]]. The song was brought back for [[Weezer concert: 02/27/2019 (a)|a performance for NPR's ''Tiny Desk'' concert series]] in [[2019]]. | |||
{{Featured song links|Longtime Sunshine}} | |||