Tim Minchin : 'Not Perfect' - music video

A live performance on ABC TVs 'Sideshow' of Tim Minchin's 'Not Perfect'.

Links:
http://www.timminchin.com/
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/sideshow/

Lyrics:
This is my Earth
And I live in it
It's one third dirt
And two thirds water
And it rotates and revolves through space
At rather an impressive pace
And never even messes up my hair
And here's the really weird thing
The force created by its spin
Is the force that stops the chaos flooding in

This is my Earth
And it's fine
It's where I spend the vast majority of my time
It's not perfect
But it's mine
It's not perfect

This is my country
And I live in it
It's pretty big
And nice to walk on And the bloke who runs my country
Has built a demagoguery
And tought us to be fearful and boring
And the wierdest thing is that he is
Conservative of politics
But really rather radical of eyebrows

This is my country
And it's fine
It's where I spend the vast majority of my time
It's not perfect
But it's mine
It's not perfect

This is my house
And I live in it
It's made of cracks
And photographs
We rent it off a guy who bought it from a guy
Who bought it from a guy
Whose grandad left it to him
And the weirdest thing is that this house
Has locks to keep the baddies out
But they're mostly used to lock ourselves in

This is my house
And it's fine
It's where I spend the vast majority of my time
It's not perfect
But it's mine
It's not perfect
But it's mine

This is my body
And I live in it
It's 31
And 6 months old
It's changed a lot since it was new
It's done stuff it wasn't built to do
I often try to fill it up with wine
And the weirdest thing about it is
I spend so much time hating it
But it never says a bad word about me

This is my body
And it's fine
It's where I spend the vast majority of my time
It's not perfect
But it's mine
It's not perfect

This is my brain
And I live in it
It's made of love
And bad song lyrics
It's tucked away behind my eyes
Where all my screwed up thoughts can hide
Cos God forbid I hurt somebody
And the weirdest thing about a mind
Is that every answer that you find
Is the basis of a brand new cliché

This is my brain
And it's fine
It's where I spend the vast majority of my time
It's not perfect
But it's mine
It's not perfect
I'm not quite sure I've worked out how to work it
It's not perfect
But it's mine

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tim
• Minchin
• Not
• Perfect
• Sideshow
• ABC
• music
• video

[AlexKrycek411]

The revolution sweeping the world is the revolution of the mind.

Recognizing the proper respect for EVERYONE'S thoughts, ideals, and basic humanity.

These revolutions are forwarded by so many different people, in so many different ways, and they lead us forward.

Tim just happens to be one of the most beautiful.

We must find faith in these movements; not in 'them' to be successful and find the solutions, but for 'us' to lead ourselves to what is right, wherever that may lead us in turn.

[mddawson1]

@AlexKrycek411 - you should not respect EVERYONE'S thoughts & ideals. Should we respect the beliefs of Hitler, Kim Jong-Il or Osama Bin Laden? I think not. Never respect the beliefs and ideals of arseholes.

[UberCathal]

@mddawson1 Yes, we should respect their ideas. However, one should not act on their ideas if they will lead to the harm of others, and that goes for everyone. 

[mddawson1]

@UberCathal - Unfortunately the people who have those hideous ideals tend to act on them. By respecting evil ideals it can give them an air of legitimacy and they continue to flourish. You end up with idiots like that Norwegian gunman - complete arseholes that have no regard for humanity.

[IIPRODUCTIONS]

@mddawson1 jus so you no, people only remember the bad things from hitler... yes he causeed some very bad things but he also brought us the volkswagen and the first motorway was his idea! dont remember people by there down falls! everyone has done something good at some point in there life

[mddawson1]

@IIPRODUCTIONS - I used to be a Volkswagen mechanic - they are nasty things to work on. You can't really count the VW as only a handful were made before the factories switched over to making weapons. I also recall an article that claimed Hitler asked the editor of Germanys only car magazine to design a peoples car. It looked very much like a Beetle but was water cooled. When Hitler discovered he was Jewish he handed the designs over to Porsche.

[JoseAlbn]

@UberCathal Respectin their ideas would have meant something along the lines of "oh, lets just leave Europe to that guy and lets not do something about it". Not very smart.

[Hellenologophobiac]

He's just so honest.

[Chocolateispurple]

Amazing song, He's funny AND he can sing, extremly unique!xxx

[bodnotbod]

Lovely song, fantastic vocals and a great performance. Mr Minchin is one of the good guys.

[FrozenSanctumStudios]

@IIPRODUCTIONS Very few people got those cars. They were never actually built because the factories switched to weapon making. The Motorways were built by forced labour for pocket money - £2 - £3 a week.

[Junkvidz]

@IIPRODUCTIONS I'm fairly certain that isn't fair, it's important to know where things went wrong in history so they don't repeat themselves... I mean I like a good Volkswagen as much as the next guy, but he sort of killed like a gazillion people and started a world war. I see what you're saying though, the only reason he didn't reach immortality and lead armies of undead Nazi's was because he was the spawn of an anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle.

[unogotcha]

@AlexKrycek411 It's funny that you're being all self-righteous about respecting ideas, yet you're pushing your beliefs on us here.

Shut up, seriously.

[MrVoorhees88]

Awesome hair. Love the song. It's different and funny but with feeling

[rolandharvey41]

gifted and talented absolute genius to watch

[McDent81]

@IIPRODUCTIONS yeah but im pretty sure it was the previous government in Germany that built is it called the "Autobahn" motorway and hitler passed it off as his own......but I could be wrong I think I heard it from a teacher I had in High School