Thank God for Girls

Album: Weezer (The White Album) (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song finds Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo expressing gratitude for the female sex, but in a typically Weezer-ish way. He wrote on Genius: "Seemed like a big, mainstream-ish title but I knew I would be able to pull all kinds of weirdness out of it."
  • Cuomo penned the first two lines of the second verse in 1997, but was unable to find a home for them until this song. ("I'm so glad I got a girl to think of even though she isn't mine. I think about her all the day and all the night it's enough to know that she's alive.")
  • The lyric, "She says I give her sweaty palms she almost had a heart attack" was inspired by an incident when Cuomo accidentally pressed "video call" on Skype and freaked out a girl he was skype-texting with.
  • Cuomo said of the song on Weezer's Facebook page:

    "I will say the band seems to be putting their all into it. There's a spoken intro that reminded me of 'Miss Sweeney' and a really pretty classic Weezer guitar driven melody. And Scott (Shriner, bass) plays the keyboard on parts of it. I love the abrupt a cappella ending, it showcases my voice."
  • The Scantron-directed video features preacher Rivers Cuomo and the rest of the band raking in donations from their religious congregation.
  • This is the hardest Weezer track to sing. Rivers Cuomo told Kerrang!: "It has a lot of lyrics crammed into a short space. They don't rhyme, there's no regular rhythm to them, and there's not a steady drum-beat. I cross my fingers every night that when I start singing it I'm not going to forget a line and get caught in a tongue-twister."

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