Self Titled Ep
Identify the song (and finish the lyrics for additional 50pts :)
“Every Sunday’s getting more bleak / A fresh poison each week” …
Take Me To Church
…“We were born sick / You heard them say it”
“When you move / I could never define all that you are to me”…
Movement
…“So move me, baby / Shake like the bough of a willow tree”
“I take my whisky neat”…
Too Sweet
…“My coffee black and my bed at three / You’re too sweet for me”
A) “I wrote a song called the ‘Monster Mash’”
B) “Who are you… Bagel Bites?”
C) “I, as a woman with curly hair”
A and C
Where’s this man from?
Bonus for actual town or region
Bonus BONUS for the year- specifically - that he was born
Bonus bonus BONUS if you can tell me who else that was coincidentally born that same year, of which rocks the same Jesus aesthetic 😉
Bray County, Wicklow Ireland 🇮🇪
1990
Bo Burnham
“‘Cause my baby’s sweet as can be / She gives me toothaches just from kissin’ me”…
Work Song
… “When my time comes around / Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth”
“The same kind of music haunts her bedroom / I’m almost me again”…
Almost (Sweet Music)
…“She’s almost you / I wouldn’t know where to start / Sweet music playing in the dark”
“Skinning the children for a war drum / Putting food on the table selling bombs and guns”…
Eat Your Young
…“It’s quicker and easier to eat your young”
A) “I see a fookin’ thOusand faces not singing”
B) “A moment of conscious, please, for the person who spent time out of their day, or possibly week to print out an enormous flag that says ‘I heart dilfs’ on it”
C)”I would say don’t take advice from people like me who got really lucky. Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams…”
A and B
You know his stage name, but I betcha you don’t know his real name 🤔🤔
Hint: Hozier is part of his last name
Andrew John Hozier-Byrne
“I have this some of the time / The way she shows me I’m hers and she is mine”…
Cherry Wine
…“Open hand or closed fist would be fine / The blood is as rare and sweet as cherry wine”
“I fretted fire but that was long ago”…
Would That I
…“And it’s not tonight / Where I’m set alight”
“I’d tell them to put me back in it”…
Francesca
…“Darling, I would do it again / Ah-ah, ah-ah”
A) “I- I replace Pitbull at the University of southern Florida, it’s like an outdoor concert- If you don’t know who Pitbull is, uh, Pitbull is Mr. Worldwide”
B) “What is Griddy? […] It’s a dance? So, it’s like a, it’s a dance. Well, my centre of gravity has never been- Here we go!”
C) “Dear, Brad, bad news chap: I spoke to the doctor about that experimental leg lengthining procedure, turns out it doesn’t exist. I hope this letter reaches you, as you probably can’t reach it.”
B and C
What’s a thing he often holds up during the performance of TMTC?
Pride flag 🏳️🌈
(‘Cause TMTC was written to raise awareness of the homophobic violence in Russia in a way)
“I know that you hate this place / Not a trace of me would argue”…
To Be Alone
…“Honey, we should run away / Oh someday”
“Be like the love that discovered the sin”…
Be
…“That freed the first man and will do so again / Lover, be good to me”
“Sha-la-la, baby, you know it’s more the being unknown”…
Unknown / Nth
…“So much of the living, love, is the being unknown”
Or
…“And there are some people, love, who are better unknown”
A) “We’ve got a lot of eager beavers in here and I love it, and there’s gonna be a lot of gold stars going out to a lot of people.”
B) “And genuinely, like, holding a coffee cup and just looking like I’m from planet earth”
C) “We’re gonna show up to your house. It’s gonna be awful… We’re going to show up and sing this at you. Both of us… it’ll frighten your dog”
A and C
Tell me the deeper meaning behind any one of his songs for an easy 400pts
*Answers vary*
“A rope in hand for your other man / To hang from a tree”…
From Eden
…“Honey, you’re familiar / Like my mirror years ago”
“Remember me, love when I’m reborn”…
Shrike
…“As the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”
“The earth from a distance”…
Abstract (Psychopomp)
…“See how it shines”
A) “Euhm, I don’t really have a favourite song, it’s kind of like having a favourite baby, or a favourite child. You couldn’t do it to the others. Although I do have least favourite songs. So, I don’t have favourite songs but I do have least favourite songs. Does that make sense? Much like your parents. They don’t have favourite children but they do have least favorite children, and it’s you!”
B) “Daddy Bezos is like: hyah! Kicks down the door”
C) “People on the set thought I was craft service. They legitimately did- Someone was like, ‘are you craft-‘ I’m like, I know I look like someone who should just be giving you brown rice, but unfortunately, like I’m pretty high on the call sheet”
A and B
Sing 4 lyrics in which he sings at least one of the following:
“Darling” - 125pts
“Baby” - 125pts
“Love” or “Dear” - 125 pts
“Honey” - 125pts
Example Answers:
“How could you think / Darling, I’d scare so easily” -Francesca
“Honey, you’re familiar like my mirror years ago” - From Eden
“Sha la la, baby” -Unknown / Nth
“So move me, baby” -Movement
“My baby’s sweet as can be” -Work Song
“Oh, but you’re good to me, baby”-Would That I
“Baby, I can never tell” -Too Sweet
“I’m starving, darling” -Eat Your Young
“Honey, when you kill the lights” -To Be Alone
“Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips” -Like Real People Do
“I had a thought, dear” -Like Real People Do
“She’s gonna save me, call me ‘baby’” -Jackie and Wilson
“Honey, don’t feed it” -It Will Come Back
“Honey, there is no right way” -Someone New
“When I have no words left, love, for you” -Be
“Each time that you called me ‘baby’”-First Time