Thank You and Good Night

"Thank You and Good Night"
Album track by Weezer
Album	SZNZ: Summer
Released	June 21, 2022
Recorded	2022
Length	4:05
Label	Crush Music/Atlantic Records
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s)	Daniel Omelio, Suzy Shinn
Status	Officially released
Live debut	April 24, 2023 in Pomona, CA
Stream	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Spotify
SZNZ: Summer track listing
	8 tracks "Lawn Chair"; "Records"; "Blue Like Jazz"; "The Opposite of Me"; "What's the Good of Being Good"; "Cuomoville"; "Portia" (vinyl-only); ; / 8. "Thank You and Good Night";
	8 tracks "Lawn Chair"; "Records"; "Blue Like Jazz"; "The Opposite of Me"; "What's the Good of Being Good"; "Cuomoville"; "Portia" (vinyl-only); ; / 8. "Thank You and Good Night";
This song is part of the "Thank You and Good Night" lineage of songs "Never Forget" (1988); "Thank You and Good Night" (2022);

"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 Weezer's 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.^[1] 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.^[2] On June 11, Cuomo shared a voice note clip of the song to fans, revealing the title to be "Thank You and Good Night". ^[3]

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

Lyrics

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

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

Known recordings

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Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo		`let_me_see your body 2015_2_10_8_21_18.mp3`	February 10, 2015		0:20	Alone XII: The White Year	Added to bundle June 23, 2022
Rivers Cuomo		`tyagn 92_piano_sus_2018_5_14_9_40_47`	May 14, 2018		2:18	Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Black Years	Added to bundle June 29, 2024
Rivers Cuomo	Monday Night Football	`Monday Night Football tweaks 2021-06-18 14.50.mp3`	June 18, 2021		2:55	Leaked online
Rivers Cuomo	Monday Night Football	`Monday Night Football code 2 2021-07-02 15.15.mp3`	July 2, 2021		1:10	Leaked online
Weezer	Thank You and Good Night		2022	4th Street Recording, Santa Monica, CA	4:05	SZNZ: Summer

References

↑ Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 7 July 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. File:MNF.png
↑ Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 6 June 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. File:Tygn.png
↑ Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 11 June 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. File:Tygn2.png

[1] Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 7 July 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. File:MNF.png

[2] Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 6 June 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. File:Tygn.png

[3] Mister Rivers' Neighborhood. 11 June 2022. Archived on Weezerpedia. File:Tygn2.png

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	SZNZ: Summer	"Lawn Chair" "Records" "Blue Like Jazz" "The Opposite of Me" "What's the Good of Being Good" "Cuomoville" "Portia" "Thank You and Good Night"
	SZNZ: Autumn	"Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me" "Get Off on the Pain" "What Happens After You?" "Francesca" "Should She Stay or Should She Go" "The Way I Hate You Now" "Tastes Like Pain" "Run, Raven, Run"
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