<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "Say It Ain't So" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "Say It Ain't So" is a song by the American rock band Weezer . It was released as the third and final single from the band's self - titled 1994 debut album . </P> <P> Written by frontman Rivers Cuomo, the song came to be after he had all the music finished and one line, "Say it ain't so". Cuomo made a connection to an incident in high school where he came home and saw a bottle of beer in the fridge . He believed his mother and father's marriage ended because his father was an alcoholic and this made him fear the marriage between his mother and step - father would end this way as well . </P> <P> In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked "Say It Ain't So" #72 on "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time ." Pitchfork Media included the song at number 10 on its Top 200 Tracks of the 90s . </P>

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