Tim Minchin - 2020 BAFTAs lyrics

Perhaps my greatest fear
Among my many fears vis-à-vis COVID-19
Is that, in the coming years
There will be even more film and episodic TV
About zombies

I think I'll write a zombie film
Set in Hollywood
In which the writers all get bitten
By a zombie carrying a disease
Which, when you are infected
Manifests in a desire to write zombie films
I know our job is to hold

A mirror up to society
But, I've been avoiding mirrors of late
'cause it's got so goddamn ugly
Remember when Cersei Lannister
Was absurd hyperbole?
But now she seems quite tame
And her naked walk of shame
Being pelted with human poo

Pelted with human poo

Is just what we daily do on Twitter

Daily do on Twitter

I know I sound bitter
But tell me, how do you make great art
When reality has jumped the shark?

Who cares?

Let's raise the rafters
It's the 2020 BAFTAs!

2020 BAFTAs!

No one's stronger than an artist in a crisis

Artist in a crisis

Come hell or high water pandemic or disorder
We will stand up

Stand up!

To give each other prizes

If there's no one to applaud me, who am I?

No one to applaud him, who is he?

No camera to record these real
Tears that I cry?

Real tears that he cries?

Will I just shrivel up and die?

Die! Die! Die!

If an actor dressed as a
Tree falls in a forest

Crash!

And the self tape doesn't upload

Oh, no!

Does she even exist?

Does she even exist?

And if Matilda stays closed am I still rich?

Welcome, you arty martyrs to the 2020 BAFTAs
Tell me
Who is the designer of your tracksuit?

Tell me, tell me
Who designed your tracksuit?

Let's get through these awards
And get back to our real jobs:
Signing virtuous petitions in our Ugg Boots

Lovely, lovely Ugg Boots

To all your clever nominees
I hope you're very, very please, d
I'm not bitter that my show wasn't nominated

It's got 86 on IMDB

I hope you have fun
Remember - whether you lost or won
Doesn't matter

Doesn't matter

'Cause the planet's almost dead!

All the legends and the laughter
On the 2020 BAFTAs
Gee, it's gonna be a hell of a party!

Virtually! Virtually a party!

If this song was too ironic
Sarcastic or sardonic
We'd better hand you back to Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade