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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[Image:Elliottjenn.jpg|thumb|200px|Jennifer Chiba and Elliott Smith.|left]] | |||
[[Image:Super-Chrono-20031108-a.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The band recording in their office space]] | [[Image:Super-Chrono-20031108-a.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The band recording in their office space]] | ||
"The Other Way" was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] and demoed acoustically, directly to a Marantz CD burner recorder with [[Todd Sullivan]], on [[November 8]], [[2003]] at Weezer's [[Office Demos|office space]] . Cuomo has described the song as being about the desire to console his former-girlfriend, [[Jennifer Chiba]], after the death of her then-current boyfriend, singer-songwriter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Smith Elliott Smith], while questioning his motives for wanting to do so. Smith passed away weeks earlier, from an apparent suicide, on [[October 21]]. | "The Other Way" was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] and demoed acoustically, directly to a Marantz CD burner recorder with [[Todd Sullivan]], on [[November 8]], [[2003]] at Weezer's [[Office Demos|office space]] . Cuomo has described the song as being about the desire to console his former-girlfriend, [[Jennifer Chiba]], after the death of her then-current boyfriend, singer-songwriter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Smith Elliott Smith], while questioning his motives for wanting to do so. Smith passed away weeks earlier, from an apparent suicide, on [[October 21]]. | ||
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==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
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I want to help you | I want to help you | ||