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| Type = album | | Type = album | ||
| Artist = Weezer | | Artist = Weezer | ||
| Released = [[September 24]], [[1996]] | | Released = [[September 24]], [[1996]] | ||
| Recorded = Spring 1996 | | Recorded = Spring 1996 | ||
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*''[[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]]'' (Live) | *''[[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]]'' (Live) | ||
*''[[Download To Donate: Haiti Charity Compilation]]'' featuring Allison Allport | *''[[Download To Donate: Haiti Charity Compilation]]'' featuring Allison Allport | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Butterfly" | "Butterfly" alludes to the Puccini opera ''[[Madama Butterfly]]''. The opera concludes with the primary character, Cio-Cio-san, who realizes that B.F. Pinkerton, will not return for her, decides to die with honor rather than live in shame, and commits suicide with a knife, dying just as Pinkerton arrives. In the Weezer song, [[Rivers Cuomo]] sings about his regret upon catching a butterfly in a jar only to find her withered away when he wakes the next day. The album recording consists solely of Cuomo on vocals and acoustic guitar, with light percussion by [[Karl Koch]]. Engineer [[Dave Fridmann]] spoke about the song's production in [[2011]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5T5ICD7xY]: | ||
<blockquote>''Rivers, he kept telling me this whole time, the whole time we were recording, "I've got this other song but we're just gonna wait 'til the time is right" and, apparently, the right time was 4:00 AM on the last night. He finished the first take and that was the first I'd heard it and I just got on the talkback and said "You sure you wanna say that to people?" and he was like "Yeah, I'm sure." and I'm like "OK, good". I was like, that's amazing, but I can't believe you're being this honest and open and unguarded in life, let alone on a record that's about to go out.''</blockquote> | |||
According to a [[Alternative Press interview with Matt Sharp - September 2006|Alternative Press interview]] with [[Matt Sharp]] in [[2006]], Cuomo brought the song to Sharp and asked for his opinions. Even though the recording included only Cuomo and Koch, Sharp still felt it was "essential to be on the record." | According to a [[Alternative Press interview with Matt Sharp - September 2006|Alternative Press interview]] with [[Matt Sharp]] in [[2006]], Cuomo brought the song to Sharp and asked for his opinions. Even though the recording included only Cuomo and Koch, Sharp still felt it was "essential to be on the record." | ||
==Live performances== | ==Live performances== | ||
Butterfly | "Butterfly" was sparingly played live with electric guitars in the years following ''Pinkerton'''s release. The live recording of "Butterfly" released as a [[List of Weezer b-sides and bonus tracks|b-side]] to the retail ''[[Beverly Hills]]'' singles was recorded [[https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Weezer_concert:_07/12/2002_-_Detroit,_MI|at DTE Energy Center in Detroit, Michigan]] on [[July 12]], [[2002]] and features the entire band, with a prominent bass line played by [[Scott Shriner]]. Versions like this are often referred to by fans as "electric" Butterfly. On Cuomo's live album [[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints]], the song was performed by a banjoist. In Weezer's [[Sessions@AOL (2009)|2009 AOL Session]][http://www.mightystudents.com essay topics], Cuomo performed the song with harpist Allison Allport. Weezer performed the song acoustically in concert, with only Cuomo and Koch, during the [[Memories Tour]] beginning in [[2010]]. | ||
==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
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*[[Karl Koch]] - percussion | *[[Karl Koch]] - percussion | ||
==Audio== | |||
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==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
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I did what my body told me to | I did what my body told me to | ||
I didn't mean to do you harm | I didn't mean to do you harm | ||
But | But every time I pin down what I think I want | ||
it slips away - the ghost slips away | it slips away - the ghost slips away | ||
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I did what my body told me to | I did what my body told me to | ||
I didn't mean to do you harm | I didn't mean to do you harm | ||
But | But every time I pin down what I think I want | ||
It slips away - the ghost slips away | |||
I told you I would return | I told you I would return | ||