Mitski Quiz

1. Which song frames an artistic career as labor performed for a blade, with the speaker realizing that time is passing differently from what she expected?

2. In which song does the speaker ask her mother whether she can return home, sleep there, and postpone the demands of adulthood?

3. Suppose someone imagines that grief will harden and disappear one morning, allowing ordinary commuting and work to continue. Which song is being described?

4. Picture devotion as pressure held beneath the surface until it bursts upward, paired with certainty that one person remains the first choice. Which song matches that image?

5. During a midnight walk, a speaker tries to give away her soul. By the end, a bird becomes connected with the burden she wanted removed. Which song tells this story?

6. In one song, the narrator addresses the moon and wonders whether her love can continue shining toward someone dear. Which song is it?

7. A traveler anticipates an aviation disaster but takes comfort in having left a remarkably tidy hotel room. Which song contains this scene?

8. Which song portrays unresolved hurt as something precious lodged inside the mind, formed around memories of a past war?

9. Imagine a relationship strained by two families’ different expectations. The narrator fears that her partner’s mother would disapprove of how she was raised. Which song fits?

10. A narrator wishes her partner would make just one mistake, since she feels continually assigned the role of damaging the relationship. Which song is this?

11. Which song turns the speaker’s heart into a household appliance while introducing discarded footwear as part of its surreal imagery?

12. Which song treats louder music and increased affection as ways to overwhelm persistent inner thoughts?

13. A narrator knowingly supports competitors who are likely to fail and wants them to look at her before their defeat. Which song uses this central metaphor?

14. Which song compares enduring love to light that keeps traveling from a celestial object even after its original source has died?

15. A lyric briefly imagines Venus—the planet associated with love—being ruined because its inhabitants may have wanted too much. Which song is it?

16. Which song combines the unsettling images of a black hole at a window and a child who feels unusually tall for their age?