Tragic Girl

"Tragic Girl" (previously titled "Cry and Cry") is the sixteenth track from the second disc of the deluxe edition of Pinkerton.
===Appearances===
* Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition) (2010)
*Live on the Weezer Cruise - Palladium Lounge (The Blue Album)
*Live on the Weezer Cruise - Palladium Lounge (Pinkerton)
==Overview==
===Songs from the Black Hole===
"Tragic Girl" as a song title existed as early as 1995. The song underwent numerous lyrical revisions,Cuomo, Rivers. The Pinkerton Diaries. Self-published. 2011 though it's not known how much the song evolved melodically. The song title is first known to have been written in Cuomo's notes in early drafts for the aborted Weezer concept album Songs from the Black Hole. An early, handwritten, potential track list lists the song at the end of Act I, between the songs "I Thought You Should Know" and "Good News!", with the accompanying lyric notes "I beg you don't tell a soul, she'll never know / Stay away from me 'n I'll stay away from her". Cuomo's draft of the lyrics from this period don't indicate which character (Maria or Laurel) is the eponymous "tragic girl", but the song is presumably sung from the point of view of the character Jonas. It is not known if this iteration shares any attributes with the final song aside from the title.
===Pinkerton===
An early iteration of "Tragic Girl" is documented in The Pinkerton Diaries (under the title "Cry and Cry"). The book features more than eight pages of lyric drafts. This lyrics from this iteration more closely resembles the lyrics that appear in the final song. "Tragic Girl" was recorded during a last-minute recording session at Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park, Los Angeles during the Pinkerton sessions:
"Tragic Girl" received additional recording work in 2010,Gormely, Ian. "Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Talks Pinkterton Reissue: "I Think It's a Brilliant Album"" Exclaim! 15 September 2010. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/weezers_rivers_cuomo_talks_pinkterton_reissue_i_think_its_brilliant_album including adding missing guitar work and re-recording unintelligible lyrics.Weezerpedia Discord Q&A with Karl Koch - August 2022 Prior to release, Cuomo also tweeted that the song would be like Nirvana's "" for Pinkerton fans.@RiversCuomo ""Tragic Girl" is going to be like "You Know You're Right" for Pinkerton fans." Twitter. 12 November 2009. https://twitter.com/RiversCuomo/status/5663540251 Screenshot "Tragic Girl" has been performed live only twice, both times on the Weezer Cruise in 2012. Recordings of both of these performances appeared on live albums released as part of Weezer's Official Bootleg series.
==Live performances==
*Weezer concert: 01/20/2012
*Weezer concert: 01/21/2012
==Personnel==
*Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
*Brian Bell – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
*Adam Orth – bass guitar
*Patrick Wilson – percussion
==Audio==
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==Lyrics==
<tabber>
|-|Pinkerton deluxe version=
When you kiss me and say you love me
It makes me feel so good
I want to break down and give in to you
I want to believe that you’re the one
You give me my pills and sing a strange song
And all my hurting goes away
Start to drift off with you beside me
I want to believe that you’re the one
Cry and cry and let it out
We have to face that it’s over now
Even as I anoint your door
I’m looking out for something more
Cry and cry, I’m crying, too
'Cause no one touches me like you do
I don’t want my mom to know 
That I’ve been a dirty boy
I try my darndest to be a bastard
I want you to think that I don’t care
But I feel sorry and you’re so pretty
You start to cry and I kiss your mouth
Cry and cry and let it out
We have to face that it’s over now
Even as I anoint your door
I’m looking out for something more
Cry and cry, I’m crying, too
'Cause no one touches me like you do
I don’t want my mom to know 
That I’ve been a dirty boy
You’re a tragic girl
You lead a tragic life
I’m just meant to be
Your latest tragedy
Ain’t no butterfly girl
This ain’t no butterfly love
I’m just meant to be
Your latest tragedy
I try my darndest to be a bastard
I want you to think that I don’t care
You’re so pretty, and I feel sorry
You start to cry and I kiss your mouth
I don’t want my mom to know
That I’ve been a dirty boy
You’re a tragic girl
You lead a tragic life
I’m just meant to be 
Your latest tragedy
This ain’t no butterfly girl
This ain’t no butterfly love
I’m gonna have to be
Your latest tragedy
|-|Songs From the Black Hole, draft 2=
I want you so bad
Your touch is magic
I love you so much
You sad, sad girl
You're just killin' yourself
and I can't be a partner to that
You dear, dear, girl
Vulnerable helpless soul
You're lost to me
You're so beautiful
When you're drunk and pukin'
I want to care for you
You dear lost soul
lipstick smeared across your face
your breath is barf
I've got to let you go
But you're a 1000 times alive
a 1000 times the girl
You're just killing yourself
and I can't go with you
I can't tie(?) myself to that
I have to let you go
and watch you sink before my eyes
I can't bring myself to say the words
but you know... you know
You're falling apart before my eyes
I can't go on with you
You're a tragic girl
You lead a tragic life (I'm your sober boy)
I'm just meant to be
You're latest tragedy
Goodbye tragic girl
goodbye tragic life
I need to be alone
and live inside myself
You make me want to cry
You make me want to run
to or away from
That I never know
You're so beautiful when you're dying
I just can't do it </tabber>
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Weezer songs
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
==References==
Category:Songs from the Black HoleCategory:Weezer songsCategory:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Songs on Pinkerton