Thank You and Good Night

"Thank You and Good Night" (formerly titled "Monday Night Football," sometimes rendered as "Thank You and Goodnight") is the seventh (or eighth, on vinyl releases) and final track from 2022 EP, SZNZ: Summer.
===Appearances===
*SZNZ: Summer (2022)
==Overview==
"Monday Night Football" was first alluded to by Rivers Cuomo in a Riverpedia entry for SZNZ as being a song about the pilot of the Goodyear Blimp. At this time, however, it had yet to be placed in any of the seasons. The page song was later confirmed to be the last song on SZNZ: Summer. Cuomo attempted to persuade his management to allow Weezer to perform the song at the NFL draft performance, but Crush rejected the idea for being too on-the-nose.Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 7 July 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. :File:MNF.png Cuomo first mentioned the song under the title "Thank You and Good Night" as an acronym on his Discord server on June 6, 2022, after being asked what his favorite song from SZNZ: Summer was.Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 6 June 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. :File:Tygn.png On June 11, Cuomo shared a voice note clip of the song to fans, revealing the title to be "Thank You and Good Night". Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 11 June 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. :File:Tygn2.png
The intro to "Thank You and Good Night" is repurposed from a song Rivers Cuomo first wrote as a teenager in 1988, "Never Forget," for his band Avant Garde. The bridge melody to "Thank You and Good Night" also resembles that of a previous Weezer song, "Beginning of the End" (itself lifted the chorus of the solo Cuomo demo "Volunteers"). It is unknown if this similarity was an accident (ala the reuse of "You and Me Together" for "Iambic Pentameter" on SZNZ: Winter) or a deliberate allusion.
Two demos of "Monday Night Football" were leaked online in December of 2022.
==Audio==
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==Lyrics==
<tabber>
|-|"Thank You and Good Night"=
In the first game of my rookie season
I was way out of my league
Mollycoddled in a coliseum
Falling apart at the seams
Everybody laughed at me
Like I was a chimpanzee
Shouting at the sky
I swore I'd learn to fly
Now look at me
Thank you and good night
I'll be seeing you when I'll be seeing you
Sorry I never did get the memo
My drummer is playing off-beat
Marching off in a unique direction
While you're all stuck on repeat
They say to each his own, that's true
Some will cheer for red and some blue
While I'm up in the sky waving my goodbye
Toodle-oo, toodle-oo
Thank you and good night
I'll be seeing you when I'll be seeing you
Thank you and good night
I'll be seeing you when I'll be seeing you
Ain't no kid on crutches, ain't no kid on crutches
Let's see where the love is when I'm buzzing
Thank you and good night
I'll be seeing you when I'll be seeing you
Strap in, put a headset on
Inject the helium
My joystick in my hand
We yaw from side to side
Toggle to give it thrust
Keep focused on the task
Up, up, and up we go
We're gaining forward speed
Thank you and good night
I'll be seeing you when I'll be seeing you
Thank you and good night
I'll be seeing you when I'll be seeing you
Ain't no kid on crutches, ain't no kid on crutches
Let's see where the love is when I'm buzzing
From this vantage I can see
Everybody looking up at me
And I know how it will be
It will be, it will be
I gotta keep flying, flying
From this vantage I can see
Everybody looking up at me
And I know how it will be
It will be, it will be
I gotta keep flying, flying
I gotta keep flying, flying
Thank you
Thank you and good night
Good night
I'll be seeing you
I'll be seeing you
|-|"Monday Night Football"=
In the first game of my rookie season
I was way out of my league
Mollycoddled in the coliseum
Running to hide-and-go-seek
Everybody laughed and jeered
It was hard for me to hear
I looked to the sky
I swear I learned to fly
And now I'm on Monday Night Football
In the blimp I'm looking down upon you all
Sorry I never did get the memo
My drummer is playing off-beat
Marching off in a unique direction
Why're y'all still on the teat?
They say to each their own; that's true
Some will cheer for red, and some blue
While I'm up in the sky with the butterflies
Where are you, where are you?
Monday Night Football
In the blimp I'm looking down upon you all
Monday Night Football
From this height I answer to a higher calling
Ain't no kid on crutches, ain't no kid on crutches
Let's see where the love is when I'm up in
Monday Night Football
In the blimp I'm looking down upon you all
Strap in, put a headset on
Going to change the thrust
This joystick in my hand
We yaw from side to side
Keep focused on the task
Inject the helium
Up, up, and up we go
We're gaining forward speed
On Monday Night Football
In the blimp I'm looking down upon you all
Monday Night Football
From this height I answer to a higher call
Ain't no kid on crutches, ain't no kid on crutches
Let's see where the love is when I'm up in
Monday Night Football
In the blimp I'm looking down upon you all</tabber>
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*SZNZ
*List of Weezer songs
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
==References==
Category:SZNZCategory:Songs on SZNZ: Summer
Category:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Weezer songs