Byzantine by Weezer

Album: Black Album (2019)

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This Casio-synth pop-rocker is an ode to a girl who has introduced Rivers Cuomo to the pop rock band Sparks.
Most of the lyrics were written by Against Me's Laura Jane Grace. Cuomo told Entertainment Weekly that she sent them to him as text messages, and he turned them into a song.
The bridge came from an early demo that Cuomo had filed away dating back to 1991. He told Entertainment Weekly it was "a very early-'90s grunge Soundgarden-type of song, which they re-imagined "as this French-pop '60s thing with a drum machine."

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