Too Many Thoughts in My Head

"Too Many Thoughts in My Head"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Weezer (The Black Album)
Released	March 1, 2019
Recorded	2018
Length	4:03
Label	Crush Music/Atlantic Records
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s)	Dave Sitek
Status	officially released
Weezer (The Black Album) track listing
"I'm Just Being Honest" (6) "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" (7) "The Prince Who Wanted Everything" (8)
This song is part of the "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" lineage of songs "Kimi wa saikuron" (君はサイクロン) (2017) "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" (1997—2018)

"Too Many Thoughts in My Head" is the seventh track from The Black Album.

Appearances

• Weezer (The Black Album) (2019)
• Alone VI: The Black Room (2020)
• Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years (2020)

Background

"Too Many Thoughts in My Head" began as a song sketch (of the chorus) recorded by Cuomo at Cole Rehearsal Studios in 1997 or 1998. This recording was released to fans as part of the digital compilation Alone VI: The Black Room in 2020. Cuomo revisited the song in October of 2013. Demos from this period were released as part of the demo compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years in 2020, and feature what would eventually become the final song's coda.

The song was revisited again in 2018 and was ultimately included on Weezer's Black Album (released in 2019). The song's bridge melody is lifted from the melody of a previous Cuomo composition, "Kimi wa saikuron" ("君はサイクロン," You Are a Cyclone) by Scott & Rivers (Cuomo's Japanese side-project with musician Scott Murphy). The lyrics for "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" also feature multiple phrases lifted from disparate sources. For example, "Going where the weather suits my clothes" is from the song "Everybody's Talkin'," by Fred Neil (and popularized by Harry Nilsson). The line "Boy found brains he never knew he had" is taken from the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption (the Black Album song "I'm Just Being Honest" also borrows a line from the film). The line "I'm really tired of this Lawrence Welk shit" is spoken by actor Kevin Spacey in the 1999 film American Beauty.

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo		19 too many thoughts in my head, now.mp3	1997—March 11, 1998	Cole Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA	1:27	Alone VI: The Black Room
Rivers Cuomo	Stab in the Dark	STAB IN THE DARK - ROUGH 1 - SEPT 7.mp3	September 7, ?		0:46	Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years	Instrumental, melody resembles "Too Many Thoughts" verse melody
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts	TOO MANY THOUGHTS - ROUGH 1 - OCT 13.mp3	October 13, 2013		1:00	Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts	TOO MANY THOUGHTS - NO VCL.mp3	October 2013(?)		1:00	Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years	Instrumental
Rivers Cuomo		Ideas 10-15-2013 16h33m26s.mp3	October 15, 2013		0:41	Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years	Coda vocal meter
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts in My Head	Too Many Thoughts In My Head.mp3	2013(?)		2:28	Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts	TOO MANY THOUGHTS.mp3	?
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts in My Head	Too Many Thoughts In My Head   3 @126 +4.mp3	2018(?)
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts in My Head	too_many_thought_verse_variation_2018_10_30_9_40_3.mp3	October 30, 2018
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts in My Head	TooManyThoughts Matty Ref 4 LIM.mp3	2018(?)
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts in My Head	TooManyThoughts Matty Ref 8 LIM.mp3	2018(?)
Rivers Cuomo	Too Many Thoughts in My Head	TooManyThoughts Matty Ref 9 LIM.mp3	2018(?)

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo
• Patrick Wilson
• Brian Bell
• Scott Shriner
• Dave Sitek - production, engineering
• Lisa Boldyreva - assistant engineering
• Matty Green - mixing
• Eric Boulanger - mastering

Lyrics

Album version Stay up reading Mary Poppins Overwhelmed by Netflix options Boy found brains he never knew he had Meet me there in Runyon Canyon Fuel up, bitch, there's no more slackin' Moses looks upon the promised land I'm so high on cookies it's insane Too many thoughts in my head now I can't get out of my brain They got me running in circles Feel like I'm going insane I had a funky night and my brain needs a break I had a funky night and my brain needs a break 'Cause there's too many thoughts in my head, now I can't get out of my brain Tried to get my thoughts on paper Comb my hair like I'm a gangster Gotta do the dog and pony show Algorithms sure ain't helping Prefrontal cortex is melting I'm going where the weather suits my clothes I'm so high on Chopra it's insane Too many thoughts in my head now I can't get out of my brain They got me running in circles Feel like I'm going insane I had a funky night and my brain needs a break I had a funky night and my brain needs a break 'Cause there's too many thoughts in my head, now I can't get out of my brain I never wanted to be lonely I never thought that life would turn out like this I never thought that I'd feel empty I'm really tired of this Lawrence Welk shit Too many thoughts in my head now I can't get out of my brain They got me running in circles Feel like I'm going insane Nothing can titillate me Dried up like a dead battery Throw me upon the heap Gonna be reused but it won't be me Can't seem to get connected What was the name of the network? Dumb bots with a dumb program I need a lover with a little more RAM Too many thoughts in my head now I can't get out of my brain They got me running in circles Feel like I'm going insane

Demo (Alone XI) Too many thoughts in my head now I can’t get out of my brain Running around in big circles Feel like I’m going insane Too many thoughts in my head now I can’t get out of my brain Running around in big circles Feel like I’m going insane Bunkered at my computer Scared stiff I'm a pervert user My mom will print this text So you better not think If you wanna have sex Our friends are in the bar We could go but it’s so damn far Used up and then abandoned Leave it all to the next generation Too many thoughts in my head now I can’t get out of my brain Running around in big circles Feel like I’m going insane Nothing can titillate me Dried up like a dead battery Throw me upon the heap Gonna be reused but it won't be me Can't seem to get connected What was the name of the network? Dumb bots with a dumb program I need a lover with a little more RAM Too many thoughts in my head now I can’t get out of my brain Running around in big circles Feel like I’m going insane

See also

• List of Weezer songs
• List of Rivers Cuomo songs