Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss

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"Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss"
Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss cover
Alone V cover art
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Released 2020
Recorded December 1991
Length 2:00
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
RC# 118
Status Demo circulating
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"Little Bag"
(RC#117)
"Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss"
(RC#118)
"I Can't Forget the Way"
(RC#119)

"Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss" is a song by Rivers Cuomo, written in December 1991 as a part of the "50 Song Project" as a song intended for what would eventually become the band Weezer. It appeared on the compilation Alone V: Before Weezer in 2020.

Appearances

Overview

"Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss" was written in 1992[1] for the "50 Song Project" collaboration between Cuomo and Pat Wilson. The song eventually became a part of the 1991-1992 Weezer cassette tape that contained songs intended for the Weezer project. On February 14, the band that would soon thereafter be named Weezer rehearsed together for the first time. On February 16, the third day of rehearsals, the band began recording to tape. "Close Your Eyes and Gimme a Kiss" was among the songs rehearsed.[2]

Known recordings

Performer(s) Title Filename Date of recording Recording location Length Appeared on Notes
Rivers Cuomo Close Your Eyes and Give Me a Kiss 08 Close Your Eyes and Give Me a Kiss.mp3 December 1991[1] 2914 Urban Ave., Santa Monica, CA 2:00 Alone V: Before Weezer
Weezer Close Your Eyes and Give Me a Kiss February 16, 1992[2] 2226 Amherst Ave., Los Angeles, CA Practice
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Lyrics

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Many times ago, as it takes to make the world
That's what she said
So it's written there, dogs and cats everywhere
Been what she said

Say you don't know, say you don't go no more
Say you never heard of such a thing, say you don't know

Everywhere I look it's always one inch that it took
Never asking

Say you don't know, say you don't go no more
Say you never heard of such a thing in your life
No wonder you don't know

Ignorance is bliss
So close your eyes and give me a kiss
And give me a kiss

Question still remains, why am I locked in such pains
While I'm serving
So it's written there, dogs and cats everywhere
There where he said

Oh babe, oh babe
Tell me you don't know, say you don't know mama
What you don't know that you don't know, say you don't know, no, no, no

Ignorance is bliss
So close your eyes and give me a kiss
Yeah

See also