El Scorcho

"El Scorcho" is a song by the American alternative rock band Weezer. It is the first single from the band's second album, Pinkerton, released in 1996.

## Background

Lead singer Rivers Cuomo mentioned in a 2006 interview with the Harvard college newspaper, The Crimson, that the lines mentioning "Cio-Cio San" and "watching Grunge leg-drop New Jack" were actually taken from an essay from a classmate of his at Harvard in an Expository Writing class. The printed lyrics to the song identify these two lines as quoted with the enclosure of quotation marks. "...one example is, in 'Pinkerton,' in 'El Scorcho,' two lines in the song are actually taken from someone else’s essay in my Expos class. Because at one point, we had to do a little workshop thing, and we each got assigned to review someone else’s essay. So, I reviewed this one person’s essay, and I liked some of the lines in it, so I took them and used them in the song." The actual meaning of "watching Grunge leg-drop New Jack through a press table" is a reference to ECW wrestler Johnny Grunge leg dropping New Jack, through a table, possibly referencing a photograph of Grunge wrestling New Jack that was published in Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

## Lyrics

[Intro: Brian Bell]

¡El Scorcho!

¡Ay, cabrón!

[Verse 1]

Goddamn you half-Japanese girls

Do it to me every time

Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello

And I'm jello, baby

But you won't talk, won't look, won't think of me

I'm the epitome of public enemy

Why you wanna go and do me like that?

Come down on the street and dance with me

[Chorus]

I'm a lot like you, so please

Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting

I think I'd be good for you

And you'd be good for me

[Verse 2]

I asked you to go to the Green Day concert

You said you never heard of them (How cool is that?)

How cool is that? So I went to your room

And read your diary

"Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table"

And then my heart stopped, "Listening to Cio-Cio San

Fall in love all over again" (Ow)

[Chorus]

I'm a lot like you, so please

Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting (Oh, what could it be now?)

I think I'd be good for you

And you'd be good for me

[Bridge: Rivers Cuomo & Brian Bell]

How stupid is it? I can't talk about it

I gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart

How stupid is it? Won't you gimme a minute?

Just come up to me and say hello to my heart

How stupid is it? For all I know you want me too

And maybe you just don't know what to do

Or maybe you're scared to say

"I'm falling for you"

[Verse 3]

I wish I could get my head out of the sand

'Cause I think we'd make a good team

And you would keep my fingernails clean

But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize

'Cause I can't even look in your eyes

Without shaking and I ain't faking

I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon

[Chorus]

I'm a lot like you, so please

Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting (Waiting, oh)

I think I'd be good for you

And you'd be good for me (Oh-hoo)

[Outro: (Matt Sharp) & Rivers Cuomo]

(I'm a lot like you) I'm a lot like you

(I'm a lot like you) I'm waiting, oh

I think I'd be good for you

And you'd be good for me, woo

## See Also

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