If You Really Loved Me (Live)

Tim Minchin

If you really loved me the way you say you do

If you love me half as much as I love you

You would pluck a planet from the sky

You'd use a falling star to dot the "I"

In "I love you", that is what you'd do

You'd take a dreary day and you would paint it blue

If you loved me unconditionally

These are the things that you would do for me

Because I need you

Like a fish needs the sea

Like a fire needs oxygen

Like a flower needs a bee

And if you really cared for me

You'd let me video you while you wee

Standing up in the bath

I shouldn't even have to ask

Perhaps you'd even store a little more in a flask

These are just the things that people do

When their love for one another is true

Ba du du

We go together

Like a toast and patê

Like racism and ignorance

Like jews and ogmoney;

And if you really want to show you care

You'd let me wear your underwear

When we go to your mum'sfor a bit of harmless fun

I just like talking about your childhood with some lace between my buns

There's no reason for a big to-do

If you love one another, it's true

Ba du du

We go together

Like a bird in a nest

Like Internet and kiddie-porn

Like guns and the US

And if you love me like you say you do

You'd purchase forty cockatoo

And teach them to fly in formation in the sky

And **** the words "Tim is God" on my ex-girlfriend's Hyundai

Sure, it might be easier with doves

But shirking challenges is not what love's all about

Love is not all wine and roses

Sometimes it's handcuffs and cheese

No one said love is for free

And if you agree with that

You'd sing me passages from the Koran

Wearing nothing but your Bob the Builder hat

To the tune of Waltzing Matilda

I just love the combination of Islam, nationalism and builder

Because I need you

Like a tick needs a tock

Like bananas need pyjamas

Like a nun needs cock

But if you want to put your love for me first

You wouldn't go through childbirth

You'd agree to adopt, so that you could stay thin

We'll get a Chinese kid - it could teach us Mandarin!

And communists don't make as much noise

And they're really good at sharing their toys

Because I dig you

Like an Aussie digs pies

Like born-agains dig Jesus

Like Jesus dug guys

And if you love me just a modicum

You'd softly rub my perineum

And stick a finger up my bum

As I'm about to cum

I heard it's quite acceptable and suprisingly fun

Now that I'm saying that I want you to

But hypothetically is something,it is something you may do

You know,if you loved me unconditionally

Like letting me video you while you wee

Assuming there's nothing worth watching on TV