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Shortly after ''EWBAITE's'' release, an instrumental-only version of the album was leaked online. In December 2017, an early version of the album was leaked. | Shortly after ''EWBAITE's'' release, an instrumental-only version of the album was leaked online. In December 2017, an early version of the album was leaked. | ||
The song contains a seemingly ambiguous lyric ("Fifteen/fifty years of ruling the planet"). Though the album version seems to use the lyric "fifteen", the earlier version of the song leaked online seems to use "fifty". The album's liner notes reinforces this ambiguity, displaying lyrics for the song with an ink blot over the word in question. Though not an explicit confirmation of the album's inspiration, Cuomo is known to have listened to the Beach Boys album ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That's_Why_God_Made_the_Radio That's Why God Made the Radio]'' via Spotify a year prior to ''EWBAITE's'' release, an album released nearly fifty years into the band's career, suggesting that [[Brian Wilson]] of the Beach Boys, known to have been [[Don't Worry Baby#Liner_notes|a massive influence]] in Weezer's early sound, is the musician described in "Eulogy". | |||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
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*[[Daniel Brummel]] - keyboard, piano | *[[Daniel Brummel]] - keyboard, piano | ||
*[[Ric Ocasek]] - producer | *[[Ric Ocasek]] - producer | ||
==Audio== | |||
<youtube>00O_iA-azRk</youtube> <youtube>yFu1Ge-vYrg</youtube> <youtube>AyrycuwRA9A</youtube> | |||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||