She's Just a Girl

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"She's Just a Girl"
She's Just a Girl cover
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Album Alone XII: The White Year
Released 2020
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
Status demos circulating

This song is part of the "Byzantine" lineage of songs

"She's Just a Girl" is a demo by Rivers Cuomo, written in consideration for what would eventually become Weezer's 2016 self-titled White Album. It was released as part of the digital compilation Alone XII: The White Year, released in 2020.

Appearances

Overview

The verse melody in "She's Just a Girl" is re-appropriated from a demo titled "There's a Bomb in the Air", written by Cuomo in 1998 at TK Productions & Rehearsal Studios in Los Angeles. Cuomo, in collaboration with Japanese musician Masafumi Gotoh, reworked "She's Just a Girl" with wholly new, Japanese lyrics, into the song "Dancing Girl" for the 2018 album Hometown by Gotoh's band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. The melody was reworked once again the following year into the Weezer song "Byzantine", released on The Black Album in 2019.

Known recordings

Performer(s) Title Filename Date of recording Recording location Length Appeared on Notes
For the recording "she's_just_a_girl.mp3", see You Make Me Believe in God (b)
Weezer She's Just a Girl she's_just_a_girl_verse_check_3.mp3 2015 1:52 Alone XII: The White Year
Weezer She's Just a Girl she's_just_a_girl_verse_4.mp3 2015 2:05 Alone XII: The White Year
Weezer She's Just a Girl she's just a girl.mp3 2015 0:36 Alone XII: The White Year
Weezer She's Just a Girl all jacked up.mp3 2015 0:35 Alone XII: The White Year Alternate lyric
Weezer She's Just a Girl high hopes.mp3 2015 0:35 Alone XII: The White Year Alternate lyric
Weezer She's Just a Girl I Need You   2 @129.mp3 2015 0:37 Alone XII: The White Year Alternate lyric
Weezer She's Just a Girl she's just a girl   4 @130.mp3 2015 2:29 Alone XII: The White Year
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Lyrics

There's a girl that I know
With some scissors at my throat
And a smile like a Buddhist nun
And her eyes start to ache
When she's crying on my grave
On the day that her folks split up
So tell me if it's really love

She's just a girl
Up in the bell tower
Leave her alone
I'm gonna kill you
Lying like silver spoons, we fall asleep
And I'm glad for the sound of silence
She's just a girl
Up in the bell tower

And she's hung from a hook
In a Richard Scarry book
She's my one hope against the world
We have real chemistry
I can feel it when she dreams
In iambic pentameter
So tell me if you're feeling her

She's just a girl
Up in the bell tower
Leave her alone
I'm gonna kill you
Lying like silver spoons, we fall asleep
And I'm glad for the sound of silence
She's just a girl
Up in the bell tower

See also