Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo may be rock god now, but back in the 1980s, he wasn't so brazen. Well, that's to hear him tell it. On 'Alone II,' his second compilation of demos and rarities, Cuomo comes clean in the song 'I Was Scared' about an incident that happened while he was attending E.O. Smith High School in Storrs, Connecticut .

"I'm talking about a really painful experience in my past when I did something really lame," Cuomo admitted recently to Alternative Press. "Me and my brother [Leaves] and my gang of friends were getting severely picked on by the jocks at school, and there was this one occasion when my brother got surrounded and I knew what was going on, but I didn't go outside in the back school and defend him."

"Not that I could have actually defended him, but I could have shown up," Cuomo continued. "But I just stayed inside like a coward knowing full well what was going on. That was when I was 16, I think. So that memory just started coming back to me and I wrote the song."

Oh, Rivers. Just think of those platinum records as vindication.