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'''"I Was Made for You"''' is the eighteenth track from "''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''". It was later worked on by Weezer and reworked as "Save Me" for the ''[[Make Believe]]'' album and was a final contender for the album but did not make the cut. "Save Me" remains unreleased. | '''"I Was Made for You"''' is the eighteenth track from "''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''". It was later worked on by Weezer and reworked as "Save Me" for the ''[[Make Believe]]'' album and was a final contender for the album but did not make the cut. "Save Me" remains unreleased. | ||
== | ==Liner notes== | ||
<pre>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. | |||
I also started dating a woman in the L.A. Philharmonic. She was the most extraordinary musician. The calluses on her fingertipes were about ten times as thick as mine and she had a giant purple-black hickie on her neck from playing the violin. She knew way more about classical music than I did. At the same time, though, she was a huge Metallica fan and had a caustic wit. But ultimately, there was an innocence about her: I had to explain to her the bawdiness in the title of Metallica's DVD, Cunning Stunts, which sat on her shelf. | |||
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.</pre> | |||
==Audio== | |||
<youtube>N0J8yt24ggI</youtube> | |||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== |