Not Perfect - Tim Minchin

This is my earth and I live on 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 a 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 taught us to be fearful and boring

And the weirdest is that he is

Conservative of politics

But really rather radical of eyebrow

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 granddad 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

This is my body and I live in it

It’s 29 and 12 month old

It 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 fucked up thoughts can hide

Cause 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 cliche

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 but it’s mine

It’s not perfect I’m not quite sure I worked out how to work it

It’s not perfect but it’s mine