I Was Made for You

"I Was Made for You"
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Album	Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Released	December 18, 2007 (Alone I); November 22, 2020 (Alone IX)
Recorded	Spring 2004
Length	4:02
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
RC#	N/A
COR#	610
Producer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
Status	Released
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo track listing
Unchained Melody track listing
This song is part of the "It's Always Summer in Bikini Bottom" lineage of songs "I Was Made for You" (2004); "Someone Who Can Love" (2004); "Save Me" (2004); "It's Always Summer in California" (2015); "It's Always Summer in Bikini Bottom" (2021);

"I Was Made for You" is the eighteenth track from Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.

Appearances

Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2007)
Alone IX: The Make Believe Years (2020)

Overview

In 2004, a particular style of song was calling me again, I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to write melodies, giant, huge, beautiful soaring melodies. I especially liked to compose at the piano, where the melodies could flow beyond the constraints of my limited voice, and my left hand could explore the pleasures of melodic counterpoint in the bass line. I started taking music composition lessons from Bruce Reich at UCLA.

I also started dating a woman in the L.A. Philharmonic. She was the most extraordinary musician. The calluses on her fingertipes were about ten times as thick as mine and she had a giant purple-black hickie on her neck from playing the violin. She knew way more about classical music than I did. At the same time, though, she was a huge Metallica fan and had a caustic wit. But ultimately, there was an innocence about her: I had to explain to her the bawdiness in the title of Metallica's DVD, Cunning Stunts, which sat on her shelf.

I had written a beautiful chorus melody on the piano a few months before and was wondering what to do with it until I met the L.A. Philharmonic woman and then bam, "I was made for you".

I had Weezer's engineer, Chad, come down to SIR and get out pro recording gear set up to record this song. But once I started recording the vocals, I asked him to leave, because... I wanted to be alone.

- Rivers Cuomo, Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo liner notes

According to the Weezer Recording History, "I Was Made for You" was first demoed acoustically as in February of 2004. The version of "I Was Made For You" from Alone is listed in that album's liner notes as having been recorded in Spring of 2004. The song was thereafter reworked under the title "Someone Who Can Love" and then "Save Me." The latter was recorded by Weezer throughout the production of Make Believe. The song was finished in October of 2004 at Grandmaster Recorders Ltd., though it was cut from the final track list and thus received no final mix. Several solo pre-production demos of "I Was Made for You" were released in 2020 as part of the digital compilation Alone IX: The Make Believe Years.

The chorus to "I Was Made for You" was later re-appropriated into the bridge to the song "It's Always Summer in Bikini Bottom", released in 2021 as part of the soundtrack to the film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.

Audio

Personnel

Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar

Lyrics

Little one, how long I've waited here
Waited for so many lonely years
Nobody ever could make me smile
'Til you came 'round with your pretty style

And I will love you so
And I will love you so

'Cause I was made for you
And you were made for me
And that is all I know
You're all that I can see
'Cause I was made for loving you
And all the little things you do
Remind me who I am inside

Happiness is such a fickle thing
Nothing compares to what you can bring
You can bring meaning to what I do
That is why I want to be with you

And I will love you so
And I will love you so

'Cause I was made for you
And you were made for me
And that is all I know
You're all that I can see
'Cause I was made for loving you
And all the little things you do
Remind me who I am inside

My darling, I need you
I'd give myself to please you
My darling, I need you
I want you to be mine

'Cause I was made for you
And you were made for me
And that is all I know
You're all that I can see
'Cause I was made for you
And you were made for me
And that is all I know
You're all that I can see
'Cause I was made for loving you
And all the little things you do
Remind me who I am inside
Remind me who I am inside
Remind me who I am inside

I don't know what I can say to you
Nothing I say feels like it is true
I am so sorry for how things were
I wish that you could be happier

Nothing works that way
Nothing works that way

Lions have to kill
Zebra have to die
Mothers sweat and slave
Still their babies cry
Everyone is suffering
Pain is all this life can bring
Tell me how the story ends

Maybe in some other universe
Being alive doesn't have to hurt
Things turn out just how we feel they should
No one is ever misunderstood

But nothing works that way
Nothing works that way

Lions have to kill
Zebra have to die
Mothers sweat and slave
Still their babies cry
Everyone is suffering
Pain is all this life can bring
Tell me how the story ends

Be happy if you can
I wish the best things for you
Be happy if you can
I'll always love your soul

Lions have to kill
Zebra have to die
Mothers sweat and slave
Still their babies cry
Lions have to kill
Zebra have to die
Mothers sweat and slave
Still their babies cry
Everyone is suffering
Pain is all this life can bring
Tell me how the story ends
Tell me how the story ends
Tell me how the story ends

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	I Was Made for You	`09 610 I Was Made For You 2004-02-06.mp3`	February 6, 2004	S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA	4:02	Alone IX: The Make Believe Years
Rivers Cuomo	I Was Made for You	`10 610 I Was Made For You.mp3`	February 20, 2004	S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA	4:02	Alone IX: The Make Believe Years
Rivers Cuomo	I Was Made for You	`05 610 I Was Made For You.mp3`	May 18, 2004	S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA	3:58	Alone IX: The Make Believe Years
Rivers Cuomo	I Was Made for You	`04 610 I Was Made For You.mp3`	June 4, 2004	S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA	3:50	Alone IX: The Make Believe Years	Alternate lyrics
Rivers Cuomo	I Was Made for You	`I Was Made For You.mp3`	Spring 2004	S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA	4:02	Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo Alone IX: The Make Believe Years
For subsequent demos, see "Someone Who Can Love," "Save Me" and "It's Always Summer in Bikini Bottom"