Not Perfect chords by Tim Minchin

• Capo on 8th

Verse 1:
           A           E
This is my Earth and I live on it
     D                  Dm
It’s one third dirt and two thirds water
       A
And it rotates and revolves through space
   A7
At rather an impressive pace
    D          Dm           A
And never even messes up my hair
    F#m
And here’s the really weird thing:
    B
The force created by its spin
       D                    A              E
Is the force that stops the chaos flooding in

Chorus:
           F#m            D    Dsus2 D
This is my Earth and it’s fine
     E                 E7         C#       F#m
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
     F#7 Bm      D        A
It’s not perfect but it’s mine
     F#7 Bm    Dm
It’s not perfe-ect


Verse 2:
     E     A             E
This is my country and I live in it
     D              Dm
It’s pretty big and nice to walk on
        A
And the bloke who runs my country
    A7
Has built a damagoguery
    D               Dm          A
And taught us to be fearful and boring
        F#m
And the weirdest thing is that he is
   B
Conservative of politics
    D             A          E
But really rather radical of eyebrows


Chorus:
           F#m              D    Dsus2 D
This is my country and it’s fine
     E                 E7         C#       F#m
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
     F#7 Bm      D        A
It’s not perfect but it’s mine
     F#7 Bm    Dm
It’s not perfe-ect


Verse 3:
     E     A           C#
This is my house and I live in it
     D                  Dm
It’s made of cracks and photographs
   A                               A7
We rent it off a guy who bought it from a guy
                     D                 Dm             A
Who bought it from a guy whose grandad left it to him
        F#m
And the wierdest thing is that this house
    B
Has locks to keep the baddies out
            D              A              E
But they're mostly used to lock ourselves in


Chorus:
        F#m               D    Dsus2 D
This is my house and it’s fine
     E                 E7         C#       F#m
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
     F#7 Bm      D        A
It’s not perfect but it’s mine
     F#7 Bm
It’s not perfect


Bridge:
         G   D  A  G D A A D
But it’s mi- -  ne

G D A G D A A D


Verse 4:
           A          E
This is my body and I live in it
     D              Dm
It’s thirty-one and six months old
     A
It's changed a lot since it was new
     A7
It's done stuff it wasn't built to do
  D            Dm              A
I often try to fill it up with wine
        F#m
And the wierdest thing about it is:
  B
I spend so much time hating it
       D            A         E
But it never says a bad word about me


Chorus:
        F#m              D    Dsus2 D
This is my body and it’s fine
     E                 E7         C#       F#m
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
     F#7 Bm      D        A
It’s not perfect but it’s mine
     F#7 Bm    Dm
It’s not perfe-ect


Verse 5:
     E     A           C#
This is my brain and I live in it
     D                Dm
It’s made of love and bad song lyrics
     A
It's tucked away behind my eyes
      A7
Where all my screwed up thoughts can hide
       D            Dm          A
'Cause God forbid i hurt somebody
        F#m
And the wierdest thing about a mind
             B
Is that that every answer that you find
       D          A           E
Is the basis of a brand new cliché


Chorus:
           F#m            D    Dsus2 D
This is my Brain and it’s fine
     E                 E7         C#       F#m
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
     F#7 Bm      D        A
It’s not perfect But it’s mine
     F#7 Bm      D        A
It’s not perfect But it’s mine


Outro:
     F#7 Bm
It’s not perfect
    A                              F#7    Bm     A
I'm not quite sure i've worked out how to work i-it
     F#7 Bm
It’s not perfect
         G   D  A  G D A A D
But it’s mi- -  ne

G D A G D A A D

G D A G D A A D

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