Foolish Father
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| Album track by Weezer | |||||
| Album | Everything Will Be Alright in the End | ||||
| Released | October 7, 2014 | ||||
| Recorded | 2014, The Village, Los Angeles, CA | ||||
| Length | 4:32 | ||||
| Label | Republic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo/Patrick Stickles | ||||
| Producer(s) | Ric Ocasek | ||||
| Status | Officially released | ||||
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| Everything Will Be Alright in the End track listing | |||||
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"Foolish Father" is the tenth track on Everything Will Be Alright in the End.
Overview
According to fans who attended focus groups prior to the album's release, the line "hell or high water" was in consideration in place of the line "You are his daughter." [1] [2] In December of 2017, an early version of the song was leaked, along with the rest of the album. This version has slight lyrical differences ("You are his daughter" was "You are his dear one") and the song's outro is missing. Rivers Cuomo can be heard whispering the words "except you die" at the end of the song (approximately 4 minutes, 11 seconds) [3].
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Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – drums
- Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals
- Scott Shriner – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Patrick Stickles - guitar
- Ric Ocasek - producer
Lyrics
Simple love songs
Drenched in blood songs
Coming out all wrong songs
Hesitate to throw your stones
When criminals are victims
Looking back into our past
There's no cause for these symptoms now
Forgive your foolish father
He did the best that he could do
You are his daughter
And he'd do anything for you
Think of how destroyed he feels
Walking to his grave plot
Knowing that the one he loves
Hates him with all of her heart
Forgive your foolish father
He did the best that he could do
You are his daughter
And he'd do anything for you
These nucleotides are paired up in a strand
How comical this stuff that makes a man
Forgive your foolish father (Forgive your father)
He did the best that he could do
You are his daughter (You are his daughter)
And he'd do anything for you
Anything for you
Anything for you
Anything, anything, anything for you (anything for you)
Everything will be alright in the end
Everything will be alright in the end
Everything will be alright in the end
Everything will be alright in the end
Everything, everything, everything will be alright now
Everything will be alright in the end
Known recordings
| Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
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| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Untitled1 ewbaite.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 2:33 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Untitled2 foolish father.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 1:07 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Untitled3 foolish father.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 1:04 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Untitled3 2 father father.mp3 | 2011—2014 | 1:04 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | Duplicate of Untitled3 foolish father.mp3 | |
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Foolish Father 4.m4a | 2011—2014 | ||||
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Foolish Father 6 vso 126.mp3 | 2011—2014 | ||||
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | Foolish Father 7.mp3 | 2011—2014 | ||||
| Rivers Cuomo(?) | Foolish Father | FOOLISH FATHER - NO VCL - JULY 28.mp3 | July 28, ? | ||||
| Rivers Cuomo(?) | Foolish Father | FOOLISH FATHER - ROUGH 4 - AUG 9.mp3 | August 9, ? | ||||
| Rivers Cuomo | Foolish Father | f_father_coda_2014_7_18_14_30_52.mp3 | July 18, 2014 | 1:07 | Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years | ||
| Weezer | Foolish Father | 2014 | The Village, Los Angeles, CA | 4:32 | Everything Will Be Alright in the End |