Tim Minchin Sings "When I Grow Up" 

Tim Minchin... Grew up...

Our local children's musical theater is putting this show on this summer. This song is not written for the kids, it's for you and me - the adults who haven't forgotten what it's like to be an innocent kid. My oldest son is too old to be in the musicals anymore - he's off to college "growing up." My oldest daughter and younger son are both in the musical. She is the Acrobat and he is Nigel. My youngest daughter didn't make the audition cut, but she knows all the words to all the songs anyway. And this summer she found a boyfriend and is growing up fast before my eyes. So, yeah, this song hits pretty close to home and me and my wife get teary-eyed every time we hear it (and since we are both working back stage, its been like 50 times now!). I remember thinking to myself about my oldest son, "He's going to be in the 5th grade! Where has the time gone?" Seems like yesterday. We just have to keep remembering "These are the good old days." Thanks for letting me ramble.

I'm 62, it made me cry as well! {:o:O:}

Look up Tim Minchin Friday Night Crack Up on RU-vid and enjoy HIS rendition of “My House” from Matilda. There’s about 1 min 45 sec of talking before the song gets going. It’s sublime and so much better than the musical version in the female voice.

Larry Stylinson It's both. An optimistic look to the future, as well as a sad look to the past.

Ryan Barham agreed

it is

Larry Stylinson That’s how good the song is!!!

Its both! Life is both. I'm 25 responding to this 8 yr old comment, I feel like a baby yet like an old woman at the same time. You gotta stop and smell the flowers and see what your life is up to. This random guy once said, "if you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it." He missed some school but i trust him

Yesss

Amazing song and voice, he reminded me of Gilbert O'Sullivan.

Chris Bell eh?

Was the hashtag honestly necessary like really

Yes it was, mate!

I love this guy #NoHetro

MyPineappleDream Bad ass

Davis Moniz Well you seem like a lovely little fella don't you.

yes please! I hope it does soon!

There's an interview where Tim says, more eloquently than I can, it addresses kids thinking how wonderful being grown up will be, and grownups are wistfully remembering all the hopes they had, maybe wondering if it's still possible to recover that sense.

"And I will wake up When the sun comes up and I will spend all day just lying in the sun And I won't burn because I'll be all grown up" It definitely hits hard to adults; the line above I thought especially beautiful, since when you are a child you think adults are the best and being one solves all your problems: to the point of thinking that nothing will faze you (not even the sun). Yet, as an adult you have a better comprehension of the problems, the sun does burn you, even if you only stepped outside for a couple of minutes. Sometimes we haven't really grown up.

I think this song is the saddest in the whole musical. While songs like I'm Here and My House are more conventionally sad in subject matter, this song perfectly captures the youthful exuberance that makes Matilda so meaningful. And the fact that it is performed by kids, to adults, is heartbreaking. They really seem hopeful that their lives will become easier as adults, while we know that isn't true. When I saw this song in the West End, i was still only a kid so I didn't doubt their statements,. Now that I'm older, and looking back on it, I can see the unrecognised hopelessness which makes it so sad.

Course you do. No matter your age your still you. Besides as a grown up you can tell children off instead of you being told off.

Mollyand Hermione I wanna be a grown up child. And just because its your opinion does not mean you have the right to tell people there dreams wont come true

That would be B flat if I'm not mistaken :)

In the show it's in F (Tim's favorite key to play in, not sing in). Here he's performing it in G.

Allison Roth Though he favours F sharp for singing ;)

@@aggeman2 F Shaaaaaarp!

João Paulo Castro The Fence é a música mais "séria" que eu achei até agora, confere aí.

Verdade, música muito legal e com uma letra bem interessante. O cara canta bem, podia cantar músicas melhores, do nível de the Fence!!

Pois é, mas eu curto as músicas bobas também kk

João Paulo Castro Listen to White Wine in the Sun by him

I've already heard many of Tim's songs and i understood that it's good just because it's not serious

Music and lyrics, but not the talking bits.

Just the music (Lyrics & Song, not choreography and stuff).

"Condition"? You make it sound dangerous. It's wonderful for creativity.

"the guy singing" :O That's Tim fucking Minchin, my dude!

@@danfulcher6118 sorry man but I don't know who that is.