You Grew On Me - Tim Minchin

A performance of You Grew On Me, taken from above the keys

Lyrics:

This is a song about love, but it's not necessarily a typical love song, in that it's not as romantic. The notion that love happens instantly at first sight, I think is a highly romanticised notion, and this is a song about how love sort of creeps up on you.

You grew on me like a tumour
And you spread through me like malignant melanoma,
And now you're in my heart,
Should have cut you out back at the start,

And now I'm afraid there's no cure for me,
No dose of emotional chemotherapy,
Can halt my pathetic decline,
Should have had you removed back when you were benign.

I picked you up like a virus,
Like meningococcal meningitis
Now I can't feel my legs,
When you're around I can't get out of bed,

I left it too late to risk an operation,
I know there's no hope for a clean amputation,
The successful removal of you,
Would probably kill me to,

You grew on me like carcinoma,
Crept up on me like untreated glaucoma,
Now I find it hard to see,
This untreated dose of you has blinded me,

I should have consulted my local physician,
I'm stuck now forever with this tunnel vision,
My periphery is screwed,
Wherever I look now, all I see is you,

When we first met you seemed fickle and shallow,
But my armour was no match for your poison arrow,
You are wedged inside my chest,
If I tried to pull you out now, I might bleed to death,
I'm felling short of breath,

You grew on me like a tumour,
And you spread through me like malignant melanoma,
I guess I never knew,
How fast a little mole can grow.
Ah yeah.