A Little Heart
Yes, this song had so many shoutouts that we're just posting the entire lyrics.
- Remember me? For the first time in forever
I'm back to battle for my little patch of heaven.
Two worlds but we're all in this together
Try everything to stop the dark in our reflection
So heigh-ho, let's go, stop wondering.
Who knows, when will your life begin?
Stay home, paint the roses red
But you'll find much better colours in the wind
Out there, at last I see the light
And it touches more than your provincial life
A twilight town can't hold you down
Got no strings now, so stand and fight!
It's a whole new world so be our guest
You gotta go the distance, Gotta be the best
How far I’ll go to face the test
We’re almost there – One jump ahead
You know that you’ve always got a friend in me
And I’ll bet that you’ve never had friends like these
So dig a little deeper, make a start
You can fly when you give this little Kingdom Heart.
Why should I worry that the world’s a little haywire?
A little heaven’s light is hiding in the hellfire
You've gotta wish upon a star before it expires.
Just around the riverbend’s the ending of an empire.
Zero to Hero, gotta be your own protagonist.
You know that everybody wants to be a catalyst.
You got a world worth fighting for, I'll be a part of yours
Come on, show me where the battle is.
Do you want to build a wall? Well, you probably do.
You just need a little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo.
Get some Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious;
Soon you’ll be ferocious and I wanna be like you.
[chorus]
Stay awake 'cause there's more to see.
You know birth by sleep comes once upon a dream.
You don’t have to grow up but you can’t shrink now.
Though up is down you’re in good company.
Perfect isn’t easy, put your trust in me.
One little slip and you’ll be under the sea.
Give a little whistle; you can bet I will be
Where you are, though apart, in my heart —
you can find a sanctuary.
So if you're living in an age of not believing,
Take a listen to what strangers like me think.
There's something there, fathoms below;
Find that keyhole and keep it beating
I bet you just can’t wait to be king...
From the day we arrived on the planet
(I bet you can't just wait to be king)
And blinking stepped into the sun
(You'll bring honor to us all)
Tale as old as time, our stars align
Our perfect world needs us to shine.
Love's an open door and you will find
That you've got friends on the other side...
[chorus]
You're scared I know
Just be prepared to let it go.
So touch the sky but when you've roamed
You're welcome to your welcome home!
You know that you've always got a friend in me
And friends are the bare necessities,
So dig a little deeper; make a start
You can fly when you give this little Kingdom Heart.
When you give this little Kingdom Heart
When you give this little Kingdom...
(little Kingdom... little Kingdom... little Kingdom...)
- "Pictures of Spider-Man
" is one of the most prominent examples. Not only is the title a reference to J.K. Simmons' J. Jonah Jameson, but pretty much every other line has some subtle reference to comics and movies that feature Spider-Man. - "Nook, Line, and Sinker"
- At one point, Tom Nook sings, "You call me amoral?" in the same melody and tone as Aaron Burr in the song "Your Obedient Servant", from Hamilton.
- There is also this punny line:Filling up the coffers, billing up the otters, watching them squirm
Yes, lions and tigers and bears owe my firm
- "Minecraft vs. Lego"
- Lego Guy tells Steve to check his space station, "no tekkit installation," referencing the popular modpack.
- "Rogue's Gallery", being a song about the infamous art forgeries of Crazy Redd's, has loads of references to famous paintings and sculptures in the music video, which includes:
- Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, with the boy wearing glasses in the forged work.
- Leonardo da Vinci's The Mona Lisa, raising one Fascinating Eyebrow; and Lady with an Ermine, with the lamb wearing a top hat.
- Alexandros of Antioch's Venus de Milo.
- Auguste Rodin's The Thinker.
- Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, Sunflowers, and The Starry Night with a UFO in the sky.
- One painting in the music video is likely a reference to several works depicting St. Francis of Assisi, such as this one by Caravaggio and these ones◊ by Francisco de Zurbarán.
- René Magritte's The Son of Man.
- Donatello's Protome Carafa or Testa Carafa, a giant bronze statue of a horse head given to one Diomede Carafa.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti's David.
- A portrait of Redd in the style of Pablo Picasso.
- Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and The Fifer.
- Henri Matisse's Blue Nude I, with the subject wearing a wristwatch that isn't in the original piece.
- Jean-François Millet's Calling Home the Cows and The Abduction of the Sabine Women (two of the three paintings thrown off the ship), as well as The Sower and The Gleaners, the latter which has the women in the painting stand on top of each other, hold pom-poms and do cheerleading, instead of gleaning straw.
- Hieronymus Bosch's The Visions of Tondal, with one of the people's faces in the painting swapped in for Dan Bull's face.
- Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
- Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, except the girl wears a star-shaped earring instead.
- Georges Seurat's 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte''.
- Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting TV series.
- Damien Hirst's catalogue of artworks in which he preserves animal bodies (sometimes chopped into pieces) in formaldehyde solutions.
- Grant Wood's American Gothic, with a sausage stuck on top of the man's pitchfork.
- In the credits, Redd complains that his clocks keep melting and thus he can't tell what time it is.
- Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy
- The band singing in "It's a Joy" is clearly modeled after The Beatles, even down to the logo on the drum.
- "Tune Into The Madness"
- The fourth verse starts with Stupendium and Dan Bull shouting, "Izzy, wizzy, let’s get busy!".
- "Chairman of the Board"
- In the Cluedo verse, Stupes compares his investigation skills to both Arthur Conan Doyle (he puts a pun when he says 'alf a Conan Doyle) and Agatha Christie.
- "Ad Infinitum"
- This song has several references to The Music Man, a play about a shady salesman similar to Spamton, which includes multiple lines from the opening song "Rock Island" and the number "Ya Got Trouble". The introductory music when Spamton starts his pitch is also clearly inspired by "76 Trombones." Spamton also appears at multiple points wearing an outfit very similar to Robert Preston's iconic suit and hat from the original Broadway performance.
- The song also references The Pirates of Penzance with the line "the very model of a modern major general store!"
- Spamton briefly replicates similarly shady salesman Bubs' "Check It Out" dance from the Homestar Runner cartoon "Lookin' at a Thing in a Bag".
- Two to Eminem:
- In "Way Deeper Down", Papyrus says "There's medals on my armor already, plus spaghetti" with the same meter as "There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti" from "Lose Yourself."
- In "The Second", the line "Any single person could be 47 lurking, he could be working at Burger King, strychnine in your onion rings" is a reference to the line "Every single person is a Slim Shady lurking, he could be working at Burger King, spitting on your onion rings" from "The Real Slim Shady."
- The final minute of "A Pizza The Action" is styled similarity to Vincent Price's spiel from Michael Jackson's "Thriller", complete with Stupes emitting an Evil Laugh similar to Price's.
- "What a Plunderful World" contains the lines "There's no need to focus on our one-sided war of the worlds, ripping up the rosebuds as we're plundering these ores 'n wells."
- "A LITTLE THEORIZING" is directly based on The Game Theorists entire YouTube channel and contains numerous background examples referencing the hundreds of videos MatPat and his Game Theory channel has made, including references to his additional YouTube channel ventures as well.
- "Dead Ahead" incorporates the name H. P. Lovecraft into the lyrics of one verse. "I'll take tea with a spot of hake please, some chips, baked beans and a blob of HP. Love, craft, and skill let you dominate seas, tough graft won't kill but a great of great teeth might."
- "The End of the Line" describes the train monster as "Sixteen tons of scurrying death".
- "The Ribbon" is framed like a The Twilight Zone (1959) episode, starting and ending with a narrator describing the premise of the Alan Wake games. The "Night Springs" logo is even similar to the Twilight Zone logo.Narrator (start): At the edge of understanding, the border of the known, the breaking point of reason, where logic is dethroned. Where sense is defenseless and festers on the bone, one writer fights a cycle trying to write a way back home. In Night Springs. Tonight's episode: The Rhythm.
Narrator (end): And there you have it. A viscious cycle scored by the hammer of keys and the ring of the typewriter. A writer cursed to relive his own words, trapped in a world of his own making. A novel concept. Everyone likes to get lost in a good book, but be careful what you read in Night Springs.
