Foolish Father

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"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
Stream	Spotify
	Apple Music
Everything Will Be Alright in the End track listing
"Cleopatra" (9) "Foolish Father" (10) "The Waste Land" (11)

"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].

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

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
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

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

See also

• List of Weezer songs