Mad Kow

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"Mad Kow"
Demo by Weezer
Format MP3
Recorded 2000, 2002
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
RC# 499
COR# 192
Status Demo circulating
Live debut July 18, 2000 in Phoenix, AZ[1]
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"My Bones Are Always Break"
(RC# 498)
"Mad Kow"
(RC# 499)
"Everybody Go Away"
(RC# 500)

"Mad Kow" is a song by Weezer. The band demoed and performed the song live in the summer of 2000 and again in the spring/summer of 2002.

Appearances

Overview

"Mad Kow" was first documented in July of 2000,[2] with the band recording demos to a DA-88 at Cole Rehearsals in Los Angeles.[3] The band performed the song live throughout the remainder of that summer. The song did not make the cut for the band's subsequent album (Weezer's eponymous Green Album), but appeared on a semi-official Summer Songs 2000 "album" distributed by Rivers Cuomo to fans in November of 2001.

"Mad Kow" was revived in March of 2002 during early demo sessions at Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood for the band's already-planned fifth album (before their fourth, Maladroit, had even been released). The band subsequently performed the song live at a few shows during that same month. The band continued work on it that summer, with one version featuring piano by session musician Ryan "Shmedly" Maynes. The song was ultimately retired thereafter. An acoustic rehearsal, as well as a clip from a soundcheck—both filmed in 2002—appeared on the 2004 DVD Video Capture Device. Rivers Cuomo also played the song during a session on the video streaming platform Ustream on August 6, 2011.

Known recordings

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Lyrics

2002

I'm watching and waiting
I'm disintegrating
I know that you'd hear me
If you could come near me

But no one can save me now
I'm lost, just like a cow
Madness burning inside my brain

I'm falling to pieces
I'm breaking my leases
And moving to some place
I'll live in disgrace

But no one can save me now
I'm lost, just like a cow
Madness burning inside my brain
My brain

I know that you'd hear me
If you could come near me

But no one can save me now
I'm lost, just like a cow
Madness burning inside my brain
My brain

I'm falling

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