1 00:00:14,528 --> 00:00:16,331 That's good 2 00:00:16,331 --> 00:00:17,406 So... 3 00:00:17,406 --> 00:00:19,456 I'm married 4 00:00:22,341 --> 00:00:24,781 Ages ago... quiet a long time. 5 00:00:24,781 --> 00:00:27,916 I've been married for a while. I've got married to... to... 6 00:00:27,916 --> 00:00:29,507 my wife. 7 00:00:29,787 --> 00:00:31,917 Seemed appropiate. 8 00:00:31,917 --> 00:00:33,897 She was... she was my 9 00:00:33,897 --> 00:00:35,828 childhood sweetheart... 10 00:00:38,168 --> 00:00:39,768 I met her when I was sevent... 11 00:00:39,768 --> 00:00:42,156 I met her when I was seventeen 12 00:00:42,156 --> 00:00:45,623 Actually this is something that is probably quite uncommon these days, 13 00:00:45,623 --> 00:00:50,491 probably something you don't wanna know, but I actually lost my virginity to... 14 00:00:50,491 --> 00:00:52,830 to the woman I ended up marrying. 15 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,689 It's not quite as sad as it sounds... 16 00:00:59,689 --> 00:01:02,029 But it's pretty fucking close. 17 00:01:05,069 --> 00:01:07,124 But I love her, I love her very much 18 00:01:07,124 --> 00:01:08,607 and I've written a lot of songs about it. 19 00:01:08,607 --> 00:01:11,877 Come, come, come... I thought you left because of the god bashing. 20 00:01:11,877 --> 00:01:14,805 It's so hard to tell these days 21 00:01:14,805 --> 00:01:18,484 Pentecostal are more blended. I don't know 22 00:01:23,729 --> 00:01:27,669 I've written a lot of songs for Sara — for that is her name — over the years. 23 00:01:27,669 --> 00:01:29,969 And I always try to include one in my shows. 24 00:01:29,969 --> 00:01:32,054 This is a sort of thank you really, because... 25 00:01:32,054 --> 00:01:35,787 I just can't imagine my life without her. And... 26 00:01:35,787 --> 00:01:36,977 So this is for you Sara 27 00:01:36,977 --> 00:01:38,627 It's called "If I didn't have you." 28 00:01:40,577 --> 00:01:42,557 Yeah 29 00:01:42,557 --> 00:01:43,984 If I didn't have you 30 00:01:45,304 --> 00:01:46,221 Yeah 31 00:01:47,731 --> 00:01:51,131 If I didn't have you to hold me tight 32 00:01:51,131 --> 00:01:55,297 (If I didn't have you) If I didn't have you to lie with at night 33 00:01:55,297 --> 00:02:00,024 (When I'm feeling blue) If I didn't have you to share my sights 34 00:02:00,024 --> 00:02:05,032 (Share my sights) And to kiss me and dry my tears when I cry... 35 00:02:05,032 --> 00:02:08,264 Well I, really think that I would... 36 00:02:08,264 --> 00:02:10,175 Have somebody else. 37 00:02:12,465 --> 00:02:14,104 (If I didn't have you) 38 00:02:14,104 --> 00:02:17,679 If I didn't have you, someone else would do 39 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:21,371 Your love is one in a million 40 00:02:21,371 --> 00:02:25,033 (One in a million) You couldn't buy it at any price 41 00:02:25,033 --> 00:02:31,392 (Can't buy love) But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other possible loves, 42 00:02:31,392 --> 00:02:34,133 Statistically some of them would be 43 00:02:34,133 --> 00:02:35,867 equally nice. (Equally nice) 44 00:02:35,867 --> 00:02:39,995 Or maybe not as nice but, say, smarter than you... 45 00:02:39,995 --> 00:02:43,336 Or dumber but better at sport or... 46 00:02:43,336 --> 00:02:45,236 Or fucking tracing 47 00:02:45,236 --> 00:02:47,371 I'm just saying I (I really think that I would) 48 00:02:47,371 --> 00:02:50,409 Probably (Have somebody else) Yeah. 49 00:02:51,732 --> 00:02:53,385 (If I didn't have you) 50 00:02:53,385 --> 00:02:57,598 If I didn't have you someone else would do (Someone else would surely do) 51 00:02:57,598 --> 00:03:01,938 If I were a rich man Diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-ee 52 00:03:01,938 --> 00:03:06,327 I guess I would be with a surgeon or a model Or a rellie of the Royals or a Kennedy 53 00:03:06,327 --> 00:03:10,739 Or a nymphomanical exhibitionist heiress to a large chain of hotels 54 00:03:10,739 --> 00:03:15,352 If I were a rich man maybe I would fiddle Fiddle diddle diddle with the rich man girls 55 00:03:15,352 --> 00:03:21,381 I'm not saying that I'd not love you if I was wealthy or handsome But realistically there's lots of fish in the sea 56 00:03:21,381 --> 00:03:26,845 And if I had a different rod I would concievably land some Even though I am fiscally consistantly pitiable 57 00:03:26,845 --> 00:03:33,317 And considerably less Brad Pitt than Brad Pitiful And I'm really so poor and ugly that you reckon only you could possibly love me 58 00:03:33,317 --> 00:03:37,468 And I (Really think that I would) Probably (Have somebody else) 59 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,570 (If I didn't have you) 60 00:03:41,570 --> 00:03:45,518 If I didn't have you someone else would do (Someone else would surely do) 61 00:03:45,518 --> 00:03:51,799 Look, I'm not undervaluing what we've got when I say That given the role chaos inevitably plays in the inherently flawed notion of "fate", 62 00:03:51,799 --> 00:03:55,908 It's obtuse to deduce that I've found my soul-mate at the age of 17 63 00:03:55,908 --> 00:03:59,537 It's just mathematically unlikely that at a university in Perth 64 00:03:59,537 --> 00:04:03,578 I happened to stumble on the one girl on Earth specifically designed for me 65 00:04:03,578 --> 00:04:08,041 And if I may conjecture a further objection love has nothing to do with destined perfection 66 00:04:08,041 --> 00:04:12,597 The connection is strengthened the affection simply grows over time 67 00:04:12,597 --> 00:04:17,863 Like a flower, or a mushroom, or a guinea pig, or a vine, or a sponge, or bigotry... 68 00:04:18,986 --> 00:04:21,105 or a banana (banana) 69 00:04:21,105 --> 00:04:25,504 And love is made more powerful by the ongoing drama of shared experience and synergy 70 00:04:25,504 --> 00:04:28,289 And a kind of symbiotic empathy, or... 71 00:04:28,289 --> 00:04:29,584 something. 72 00:04:29,584 --> 00:04:33,826 So I trust it would go without saying That I would feel really very sad 73 00:04:33,826 --> 00:04:36,006 If tomorrow you were to fall off something high 74 00:04:36,006 --> 00:04:37,868 Or catch something bad. 75 00:04:37,868 --> 00:04:41,751 But I'm just saying I don't think you're special 76 00:04:41,751 --> 00:04:46,787 I mean... I think your special But you fall within a bell curve 77 00:04:46,787 --> 00:04:51,315 I mean, I'm just saying I (Think that I would) Probably (Have somebody else) 78 00:04:51,315 --> 00:04:54,217 I think you are unique and beautiful 79 00:04:54,217 --> 00:04:59,527 You make me happy just by being around (Just being around) 80 00:04:59,527 --> 00:05:04,143 But objectively you would have to agree that baby when I found you 81 00:05:04,143 --> 00:05:08,167 Options were relatively thin on the ground 82 00:05:08,167 --> 00:05:12,521 (Thin on the ground) You're lovely but there must be girls as lovely as you 83 00:05:12,521 --> 00:05:17,770 And maybe more open to spanking or... fucking table tennis 84 00:05:17,770 --> 00:05:21,571 I'm just saying (That I think that I would) Probably (Have somebody else) 85 00:05:21,571 --> 00:05:24,239 I mean I reckon it's pretty likely that if for example 86 00:05:24,239 --> 00:05:26,786 My first girlfriend Jackie hadn't dumped me 87 00:05:26,786 --> 00:05:30,956 After I kissed Winston's ex girlfriend Neah at Steph's party back in 1993 88 00:05:30,956 --> 00:05:35,441 And our variables would probably have been altered by the absence of that event 89 00:05:35,441 --> 00:05:39,566 To have meant the advent of a tangential narrative and which we don't meet. 90 00:05:39,566 --> 00:05:43,319 Which is to say there exists a theoretical hypothetical parallel life 91 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:47,223 Where "what is" is not as it is and I am not your husband and you are not my wife 92 00:05:47,223 --> 00:05:49,421 And I am a stuntman living in LA 93 00:05:49,421 --> 00:05:52,811 Married to a small blonde portugese skier Who when she's not training 94 00:05:52,811 --> 00:05:56,784 Does abstract painting, practises yoga, and brews her own beer 95 00:05:56,784 --> 00:06:02,071 And really like making home movies And suffers neck down alopecia 96 00:06:05,094 --> 00:06:09,386 But with all my heart and all my mind I know one thing is true 97 00:06:09,386 --> 00:06:13,777 I have just one life and just one love and my love that love is you 98 00:06:13,777 --> 00:06:17,086 And if it wasn't for you Darling you 99 00:06:17,086 --> 00:06:20,158 (I really think that I would) Possibly (Have somebody else) 100 00:06:20,158 --> 00:06:23,498 Oh yeah 101 00:06:23,498 --> 00:06:30,931 (If I didn't have you) If I didn't have you someone else would surely do (Someone else would surely do) 102 00:06:30,931 --> 00:06:33,777 Do the motherfucker do 103 00:06:42,577 --> 00:06:44,483 So I mmm... yeah... 104 00:06:44,483 --> 00:06:48,001 I've write that song because I thought... after all the... nasty... 105 00:06:48,001 --> 00:06:51,271 so I thought I should write one that didn't offend anyone 106 00:06:51,271 --> 00:06:54,236 But there's always one, you know. 107 00:06:54,236 --> 00:06:57,003 I came out of my show a couple months ago 108 00:06:57,003 --> 00:07:02,074 the first time after performing that song, and there was a girl, a young woman. Why, I would've told nineteen or twenty year I couldn't know 109 00:07:02,074 --> 00:07:07,677 at some point I said "Did you enjoy the show?" and she said "Yeah it was really good, mostly..." 110 00:07:07,677 --> 00:07:12,105 And I: "Ok, what didn't you like?" And she said 111 00:07:12,105 --> 00:07:17,715 "It's just... I liked it all... it's just... that "If I didn't have you"... the sexist one..." 112 00:07:17,715 --> 00:07:23,840 "I just don't like sexist... that sort of sexist comedy... I just don't find it funny" 113 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:32,271 "I was just sitting there all the time thinking what it would it be like being your wife being the subject of such a sexist song" 114 00:07:32,271 --> 00:07:37,481 And I said: "Oh..." 115 00:07:37,481 --> 00:07:41,565 "You are studying feminism in the Uni" 116 00:07:47,314 --> 00:07:49,974 I didn't say that. I should have said that! 117 00:07:49,974 --> 00:07:55,880 But I realized immediately that she made a mistake 'cause she obviously thought that that was a song about love or relationship 118 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,398 or something when it's quite clearly a song about maths 119 00:07:59,398 --> 00:08:02,833 And also, I thought: "What a hypocrite!" 120 00:08:02,833 --> 00:08:06,239 You know, because actually if you think about it she was being sexist 121 00:08:06,239 --> 00:08:10,090 In making the rather condescending assumption that my wife is a woman 122 00:08:10,090 --> 00:08:13,671 who couldn't handle that sort of humor, that my wife is some kind 123 00:08:13,671 --> 00:08:18,025 of wilting flower of a woman who crawls in the corner of my kitchen as I 124 00:08:18,025 --> 00:08:22,845 periodically beat her with bags of comedy oranges. 125 00:08:22,845 --> 00:08:27,820 But it's not the case. I mean Sara and I share a sense of humor obviously. 126 00:08:27,820 --> 00:08:30,879 We've been together almost half our lives 127 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:34,044 She made me like this 128 00:08:37,217 --> 00:08:42,757 However if anyone stills thinks I'm sexist I'll give you an example of Sara sense of humor, to clear it up... 129 00:08:42,757 --> 00:08:47,840 A little bit of back story for this one... A couple of years ago Sara and I went and did a... 130 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,257 a baby. It was good, yeah... 131 00:08:51,257 --> 00:08:57,325 You should definitely do one if you want but I want to tell you something because I didn't know this right. When you first get your first baby 132 00:08:57,325 --> 00:09:01,640 When they're little things, the first couple of months, you spend your whole life scared shitless. 133 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,680 Cause tiny babies, they sleep all the time and when they sleep, they sleep like this, they go: 134 00:10:24,813 --> 00:10:27,937 Fuck you baby!!! 135 00:10:30,957 --> 00:10:33,099 And that's how little babies are. 136 00:10:33,099 --> 00:10:36,525 So anyway when my baby was about that age, sort of two month old 137 00:10:36,525 --> 00:10:40,001 my wife and I were... it was evening, you know, night-time, and we put her in bed 138 00:10:40,001 --> 00:10:45,540 in a little cart, in a little room, in our little house, in our little lives... 139 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:50,762 And we where sitting there in our medium size sofa watching quite a big telly 140 00:10:50,762 --> 00:10:55,234 Just trying to watch a movie, and you know it was evening, just trying to relax and chill out together 141 00:10:55,234 --> 00:10:57,439 And about a quarter of the way through the movie I said to Sara 142 00:10:57,439 --> 00:10:59,727 "I'm just going to pop in and check on the baby" 143 00:10:59,727 --> 00:11:05,108 And Sara said: "Tim, don't go check on the baby, just sit down and relax for once..." 144 00:11:05,108 --> 00:11:11,699 "If she's asleep, you'll just wake her up, and if she's dead... 145 00:11:12,497 --> 00:11:15,497 "There's not much we can do about it" 146 00:11:18,724 --> 00:11:22,886 "We might as well watch the end of the movie" 147 00:11:22,886 --> 00:11:26,831 "Get an hour and a half more happiness before our life collapses" 148 00:11:28,579 --> 00:11:32,360 So don't worry about my sick fucking wife 149 00:11:35,968 --> 00:11:38,927 Although, have you noticed... 150 00:11:38,927 --> 00:11:41,927 Everyone has a line, don't they, with dark humor 151 00:11:41,927 --> 00:11:44,290 Everyone has their line, you know, I've never met anyone who doesn't say 152 00:11:44,290 --> 00:11:47,857 "I really have a dark sense of humor, you know, I really like dark comedy" 153 00:11:47,857 --> 00:11:49,549 Everyone has a line... "That's very funny, that's very funny" 154 00:11:49,549 --> 00:11:54,038 "Oh, I'm outraged, I wanna write a shit letter to a bad news paper" 155 00:11:54,038 --> 00:11:57,352 I find that line difficult to navigate, I always have 156 00:11:57,352 --> 00:12:02,621 even in my private life... and still, just a few months ago, I was in my kitchen 157 00:12:02,621 --> 00:12:06,430 and my baby who at that stage was not quite 2 158 00:12:06,430 --> 00:12:10,634 I was wondering in the kitchen making a sandwich and notice she had found something and stuck it in her mouth 159 00:12:10,634 --> 00:12:12,249 you know, they put it in their mouths. And I was: 160 00:12:12,249 --> 00:12:16,281 "Honey came here, what have you got in your mouth there" 161 00:12:16,281 --> 00:12:22,324 "Spit it out, spit it out... spit it out, good girl. Darling you don't put coins in your mouth..." 162 00:12:22,324 --> 00:12:30,248 "Coins are dirty, coins are yuckie, you don't put coins in your mouth, your mouth is for food..." 163 00:12:30,248 --> 00:12:31,804 "and a little later on" 164 00:12:31,804 --> 00:12:34,084 "cock." 165 00:12:35,294 --> 00:12:39,854 See, I fucking knew that was funny, right? That's funny, isn't it? 166 00:12:39,854 --> 00:12:44,014 Exactly! But my wife was in the kitchen 167 00:12:44,014 --> 00:12:46,786 And my wife was like: "Tim!" 168 00:12:46,786 --> 00:12:50,291 "For Christ sake, you can't said that!" 169 00:12:50,291 --> 00:12:52,082 "She might like pussy!"