(Oh, hey bro! How we doing man?
Its been a while man, life's so rad
This band's my favorite man, dont you love 'em?
Aw, man, you want a beer?
Aw, man, hell, bro, this is the best man
I'm so glad we're all back together
This is great man
Hey, you know about the party after the show?
Aw, man, it's going to be the best
Im so stoked
Take it easy bro)
I'm me, me be
God damn, I am
I can, sing and
Hear me, know me
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread, as I walk away
(Hey, whats up?
Umm, did you hear about the party?
I think Im gonna go, but, umm, my friends dont really wanna go,
could I get a ride?)
Oh no, it go
It gone, bye bye (bye)
Who I, I think
I sink and I die
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away (as I walk away)
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away (as I walk away)
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone
(If you want to destroy my sweater)
I don't want to destroy your tank-top
(Hold this thread as i walk away)
Let's be friends and just walk away
(Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked)
Its good to see you lyin' there in your Superman skivvies
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone
Its been a while man, life's so rad
This band's my favorite man, dont you love 'em?
Aw, man, you want a beer?
Aw, man, hell, bro, this is the best man
I'm so glad we're all back together
This is great man
Hey, you know about the party after the show?
Aw, man, it's going to be the best
Im so stoked
Take it easy bro)
I'm me, me be
God damn, I am
I can, sing and
Hear me, know me
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread, as I walk away
(Hey, whats up?
Umm, did you hear about the party?
I think Im gonna go, but, umm, my friends dont really wanna go,
could I get a ride?)
Oh no, it go
It gone, bye bye (bye)
Who I, I think
I sink and I die
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away (as I walk away)
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone
If you want to destroy my sweater
Hold this thread as I walk away (as I walk away)
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone
(If you want to destroy my sweater)
I don't want to destroy your tank-top
(Hold this thread as i walk away)
Let's be friends and just walk away
(Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked)
Its good to see you lyin' there in your Superman skivvies
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone
song info:
Verified yes
Language
GenrePop, Rock, Alternative
Rank−
Duration00:04:15
Charts
Copyright ©E O Smith Music
WriterRivers Cuomo
Lyrics licensed byLyricFind
Added
Last updatedMarch 5th, 2022
About"Undone – The Sweater Song" is a song by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on the band's self-titled 1994 debut album. It was released as their debut single in 1994. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has commented on the song, saying:
" "Undone" is the feeling you get when the train stops and the little guy comes knockin' on your door. It was supposed to be a sad song, but everyone thinks it's hilarious."
Cuomo has also said that it was his attempt at writing "a Velvet Underground-type song," but later referred to the song as an inadvertent rip-off of Metallica's "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", with the band's metal roots showing through.
The song is notable for its seemingly basic chord progression which repeats through the verse and chorus of I, IV, V, IV. Many fans relate the progression to other popular rock songs such as "Wild Thing" performed by The Troggs. However, the song does experience a key change modulation for the guitar solo after the second chorus, modulating from the key of G Major to A Major, and thus following the same I, IV, V, IV progression. Also, the main guitar lead played over the chords of the intro and the outro contains a raised second pitch which resolves to the third. This accidental within the key gives the song an off-note and perceivably quirky feel to it.
The music video for "Undone" was Weezer's first music video. According to Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story by John D. Luerssen, the band insisted that the video not have anything to do with a sweater. Yet Geffen received twenty-five treatments for the video, all involving sweaters. The video marks one of the early directorial efforts of Spike Jonze, whose pitch was simply "A blue stage, a steadicam, a pack of wild dogs." The $60,000 video was shot on a steadicam in one unbroken shot, featuring the band playing to a sped up version of the song. When played at a slower speed, the illusion is created that the band is playing the song in the correct time, yet moving in slow motion. The one shot was taken over twenty-five times and the final version is somewhere between take #15 and take #20, in which the band had abandoned the idea of taking the video seriously at all. The humor was brought on by the frustration of shooting the same shot over and over to a sped up version of the song as well as the fact that one of the dogs defecated on Patrick Wilson's bass drum pedal. The video became an instant hit on MTV.
An alternate take of the video can be found on the band's Video Capture Device DVD.
In the video, lead singer Rivers Cuomo is wearing a Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz jersey. At Weezer's first performance in Mexico City many fans wore the same jersey.
" "Undone" is the feeling you get when the train stops and the little guy comes knockin' on your door. It was supposed to be a sad song, but everyone thinks it's hilarious."
Cuomo has also said that it was his attempt at writing "a Velvet Underground-type song," but later referred to the song as an inadvertent rip-off of Metallica's "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", with the band's metal roots showing through.
The song is notable for its seemingly basic chord progression which repeats through the verse and chorus of I, IV, V, IV. Many fans relate the progression to other popular rock songs such as "Wild Thing" performed by The Troggs. However, the song does experience a key change modulation for the guitar solo after the second chorus, modulating from the key of G Major to A Major, and thus following the same I, IV, V, IV progression. Also, the main guitar lead played over the chords of the intro and the outro contains a raised second pitch which resolves to the third. This accidental within the key gives the song an off-note and perceivably quirky feel to it.
The music video for "Undone" was Weezer's first music video. According to Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story by John D. Luerssen, the band insisted that the video not have anything to do with a sweater. Yet Geffen received twenty-five treatments for the video, all involving sweaters. The video marks one of the early directorial efforts of Spike Jonze, whose pitch was simply "A blue stage, a steadicam, a pack of wild dogs." The $60,000 video was shot on a steadicam in one unbroken shot, featuring the band playing to a sped up version of the song. When played at a slower speed, the illusion is created that the band is playing the song in the correct time, yet moving in slow motion. The one shot was taken over twenty-five times and the final version is somewhere between take #15 and take #20, in which the band had abandoned the idea of taking the video seriously at all. The humor was brought on by the frustration of shooting the same shot over and over to a sped up version of the song as well as the fact that one of the dogs defecated on Patrick Wilson's bass drum pedal. The video became an instant hit on MTV.
An alternate take of the video can be found on the band's Video Capture Device DVD.
In the video, lead singer Rivers Cuomo is wearing a Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz jersey. At Weezer's first performance in Mexico City many fans wore the same jersey.