Let them wait, let them wonder

"Let them knock" by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Also fighting for prominence in my brain: multiple quotations from Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. 

Waking up with a headache

"Keep your Head" by The Ting Tings

Forget Rosalie!

"Be my husband" by Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan (Originally by Nina Simone)

Drums are better on the cover.

too old?

"Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry

Possibly a result of the family funeral business

"My Boy Builds Coffins" by Florence + the Machine

(un)tragic + (un)hip

"Ahead by a Century" by The Tragically Hip

source

I'm literally none of these things: tragic, hip, or ahead of the times.