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Tim Minchin – Not Perfect 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 it's 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 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 a 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 a 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 thirty-one and six 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 a 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
Cause God forbid I hurt somebody
And the weird thing about a mind
Is that every answer that I find
Is the basis of a brand new cliche


This is my brain
And it's fine
It's where I spend a 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've worked out how to work it
It's not perfect, but it's mine
But it's mine
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    The song is about a few things at once. Firstly, it's about perspective: notice how each verse gets smaller and smaller in scope. We're all individuals, but we all live together on the same planet. Secondly, it's about accepting what you have instead of worrying about what you don't. Nothing is perfect - not you, not your body, not your house, not your country, not the Earth - but it's what we have, so we need to work with it.
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    I love this song and its words. The first time I heard Tim sing it was on a show in Oz with the dude out of Doug Anthony Allstars - his program apologises forgot his name... anyway that's when I fell in love with Minchin's writing, playing and singing. Would love to see him in politics especially back over here in Oz. God knows we need someone to keep the bastards honest. If you haven't seen it yet I suggest any lovers of this watch Tim in "Jesus Christ superstar' no guessing who the start is:)
    As far as what the songs about agree with the above it's not perfect. Nothing is, make the most of it, appreciate where we are and if we actually see it as "MY" earth, but a collective my so we all have a responsibility to its wellbeing and humankind's future. Namaste X.
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