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"'''Expatriates in Paris'''" is | "'''Expatriates in Paris'''" is a song written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in collaboration with musicians [[Daniel Brummel]] and [[Ryen Slegr]] (of the band [[Ozma]]). | ||
===Appearances=== | |||
*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' (partial sketch) | |||
*''[[Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers]]'' | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
"Expatriates in Paris" was written in contention for the album that would ultimately become [[2014]]'s ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. The song | "Expatriates in Paris" was written in contention for the album that would ultimately become [[2014]]'s ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. The song did not appear on any [[Weezer]] albums, but demos were played at listening parties in the years prior to the album's release, and the melody was subsequently [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPkK0pccCrM re-created from memory] by fans. During a [[List_of_Rivers_Cuomo_video_streams#Zoom|Zoom webinar with fans]] on [[May 1]], [[2020]], Cuomo confirmed that the song was co-written with [[Daniel Brummel]] and [[Ryen Slegr]]. A piano sketch of the song's melody, recorded by Cuomo, was released on [[November 20]], [[2020]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''. Several full demos of the song were released on [[December 11]] of that year as part of the compilation ''[[Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers]]''. | ||
== | ==Lyrics== | ||
< | ===Expatriates in Paris 11=== | ||
<poem>The end of the day, they gather together | |||
In a little café on the bank of the Seine | |||
Miller had June, Fitzgerald had Zelda | |||
And they traded their tales of the work from that day | |||
A special kind of animal, so ??? | |||
Human encyclopedias, so ??? | |||
Expatriates in Paris | |||
Hanging out in a café | |||
Talking 'bout the day's events | |||
Why can't we be that way? | |||
I exiled myself from a homeland that hurt me | |||
And didn't believe in the things that I made | |||
I came to a place where I could be a hero | |||
And my soul could be saved, in a loving embrace | |||
A special kind of animal, so ??? | |||
Human encyclopedias, so ??? | |||
Expatriates in Paris | |||
Hanging out in a café | |||
Talking 'bout the day's events | |||
Why can't we be that way? | |||
??? | |||
Expatriates in Paris | |||
Hanging out in a café | |||
Talking 'bout the day's events | |||
Why can't we be that way? | |||
Why can't we be that way?</poem> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of | *[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | ||
*[[ | *''[[Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers]]'' | ||
*[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End | *''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]'' | ||
[[Category: | [[Category: Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category:Songs on Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers]][[Category:Songs on Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]] | ||