Feels Like Summer

"Feels Like Summer" is a song by the American rock band Weezer. It was released on March 16, 2017 as the lead single for their 2017 album Pacific Daydream. The song was performed for the first time at SXSW on March 17, 2017.

## Background

On March 13, 2017, a short clip of the song was posted to the band's Youtube page along with a release date. The full song leaked on March 14 on the Russian social network VKontakte. A video was released at midnight on March 16th to coincide with the single's release. Along with the release of the single was the announcement of a new album that was to be released in the summer. The song ended up on Pacific Daydream, the band's next album. The track was intended to be released on the planned followup to The White Album, Weezer (Black Album), but when that album was delayed, it was put on Pacific Daydream.

On June 29, 2017, an acoustic version of the single was released. On July 27, 2017, an alternate video for the song was released, parodying the video for Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City."

The line "let me see the smile" used in the outro is one that holds relevance to Rivers and his childhood. As he told Alternative Press in 1997, "I know I was a very somber child. I would never smile. In the second grade my teacher asked my mother what was wrong with me because I never looked happy. So my mother advised her to say, ‘Let me see the smile,’ and then I would smile. So she did that –in front of the whole class. She got the whole class to turn around, look at me and say, ‘Let me see the smile.‘"

## Music Video

The music video was directed by Lior Molcho and stars dancer Chloe Mae. It premiered on August 17, 2017.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Climbing up the tower, just a boy and his computer

I'm still in my bathrobe, hiding in the shadows

I'm not used to losing, bye, bye, sugar blue eyes

You're home with the angels, thank you for being so kind

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm holding on and I don't want to let you go, whoa-oh-oh

[Chorus]

Yeah it feels like summer, yeah it feels like summer to me

Yeah it feels like summer, yeah it feels like summer

And she was a lover to me, to me, to me, to me

[Verse 2]

Which way is the graveyard? I'm an iceberg with a warm heart

I'm spiritual, not religious, I'm a Libra, if it matters

Shattered by an email, your words will fade away

Castle built in the sand will only last one day

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm holding on and I don't want to let you go, whoa-oh-oh

[Chorus]

Yeah it feels like summer, yeah it feels like summer to me

Yeah it feels like summer, yeah it feels like summer

When she was a lover to me

[Bridge]

June bride, shine so bright

Flowers in her hair, but it just ain't right

June bride, shine so bright

Flowers in her hair

We look good together, aw yeah

We look good together, aw yeah

-popular.. Now, that's another confusing thing. Umm...

[Chorus]

Yeah it feels like summer (It feels like summer)

Yeah it feels like summer

When she was a lover to me

[Outro]

Let me see the smile, stay with me awhile

I cried for you, you were the song in my life

Let me see the smile, stay with me awhile

I cry for you, you were the song in my life

## See Also

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