Lyric discussion by GedofMyaz 

I'm tired of reading crap about this song. Here is what it REALLY is about! In 1992 a song called The Sweater by Meryn Caddell came out. It was about a girl who borrows a sweater from a boy on a camping trip. The girl spends hours with the sweater after getting home and develops an attraction for the boy. She wears it to school and another girl gives her a note saying the boy just wants his sweater back. The girl takes it off and noticing it is 100% polyester considers outing the boy as a cheapskate.

KROQ the alternative FM station played that song a LOT as they have a habit of doing. Weezer made a demo of Undone as an answer to the song and sent it to the station as a joke. The songs got played back to back quite a few times. Weezer got signed to Elektra in 1993 and the rest is history.

Thank you!

@GedofMyaz I was wondering how they got their start

@GedofMyaz Good to know. That explains how the song got started, but doesn't explain the meaning. You said it was just a joke, but it isn't funny at all. The lyrics "Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked. Lying on the floor, I've come undone", it's clearly talking about the person, and not the sweater. So the sweater MUST be a metaphor for something...Either the relationship, his heart, or his mentality, or all three..

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