Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin
Note: lyrics here are those from the 2010 single. Subsequent performances vary slightly.
A punk-esque song written as an angry response to the well-founded allegations that Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) was aware of, and helped to cover up, child abuse by the Roman Catholic clergy. It also a...
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, he's a fucking motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the fucking fucker
Fuck the motherfucker, he's a total fucking fucker
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, fucking fuck the motherfucker
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucking pope
Fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you, motherfucker
If you think that motherfucker is sacred
If you cover for another motherfucker who's a kiddie fucker
Fuck you, you're no better than the motherfucking rapist
And if you don't like the swearing that this motherfucker forced from me
And reckon it shows moral or intellectual paucity
Then fuck you, motherfucker - this is language one employs
When one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys
I don't give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker
Makes you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate
This has naught to do with other fucking godly motherfuckers
I'm not interested right now in fucking scriptural debate
There are other fucking songs, and there are other fucking ways
I'll be a religious apologist on other fucking days
But the fact remains, if you protect a single kiddie fucker
Then pope or prince or plumber, you're a fucking motherfucker
You see, I don't give a fuck what any other motherfucker
Believes about Jesus and his motherfucking mother
I've no problem with the spiritual beliefs of all these fuckers
While those beliefs don't impact on the happiness of others
But if you build your church on claims of fucking moral authority
And, with threats of hell, impose it on others in society
Then you, you motherfuckers, can expect some fucking wrath
When it turn out you've been fucking us in our motherfucking asses
So fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you motherfucker
If you're still a motherfucking papist
If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddie fucker
Fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist
And if you look into your motherfucking heart and tell me true
If this motherfucking stupid fucking song offended you
With its filthy fucking language and its fucking disrespect
If it made you feel angry, go ahead and write a letter
But if you find me more offensive than the fucking possibility
The pope protected priests when they were getting fucking fiddly
Then listen to me, motherfucker, this here is a fact:
You are just as morally misguided as that motherfucking
Power-hungry, self-aggrandised bigot in the stupid fucking hat
Pope Song was written by Tim Minchin.
Tim Minchin released Pope Song on Thu Apr 29 2010.
This is Tim’s response to predictable yet critical backlash that has followed his performance of The Pope Song:
I really don’t like upsetting people…and I never do it myself unless it is an incredibly carefully thought-out polemic like the Phil Daoust song or the Pope Song which have carefully cons...