Perfect World

"**Perfect World**" is the opening song in Disney's feature film, *The Emperor's New Groove*. It is sung by Tom Jones as the Theme Song Guy.

## Plot

The song is first sung at the beginning of the film where the Theme Song Guy sings about Kuzco's palace under control. The song pauses for awhile when Kuzco blames Rudy for interrupting the musical number so one of his guards expels him for doing so. The song then resumes and ends with Kuzco and his guards dancing together.

During the end of the film when Kuzco reforms and gets along with Pacha and the peasants, the Theme Song Guy sings a reprise of the song again in Kuzcotopia.

## Lyrics

* Original (soundtrack)
* Original (movie)
* Broadway
* Reprise (soundtrack)
* Reprise (movie)
* Yzma version

There are despots and dictators

Political manipulators

There are blue bloods with the intellects of fleas

There are kings and petty tyrants

Who are so lacking in refinements

They'd be better suited swinging from the trees

He was born and raised to rule

No one has ever been this cool

In a thousand years of aristocracy

An enigma and a mystery

In Mesoamerican history

The quintessence of perfection that is he

He's the sovereign lord of the nation

He's the hippest dude in creation

He's a hep cat in the emperor's new clothes

Years of such selective breeding

Generations have been leading

To this miracle of life that we all know

What's his name?

**Chorus:** Kuzco, Kuzco (That's his name)

Kuzco (He's the king of the world)

Kuzco, Kuzco (Is he hip or what?)

Kuzco (Yeah)

He's the sovereign lord of the nation

He's the hippest cat in creation

He's the alpha, the omega, A to Z

And this perfect world will spin

Around his every little whim

'Cos this perfect world begins and ends with

What's his name?

**Chorus:** Kuzco, Kuzco, Kuzco

Kuzco (That's his name)

Kuzco, Kuzco (Is he hip or what?)

Kuzco (Don't you know he's the king of the world?)

Kuzco-(Oh yeah)-oooo (Owww!)

There are despots and dictators

Political manipulators

There are blue bloods with the intellects of fleas

There are kings and petty tyrants

Who are so lacking in refinements

They'd be better suited swinging from the trees

He was born and raised to rule

No one has ever been this cool

In a thousand years of aristocracy

An enigma and a mystery

In Mesoamerican history

The quintessence of perfection that is he

Aw yeah!

He's the sovereign lord of the nation

He's the hippest cat in creation

He's the alpha, the omega, A to Z

And this perfect world will spin

Around his every little whim

'Cos this perfect world begins and ends with

**Kuzco:** Me!

What's his name?

**Chorus:** Kuzco, Kuzco (That's his name)

Kuzco (He's the king of the world)

Kuzco, Kuzco (Is he hip or what?)

Kuzco (Yeah)

What's his name?

**Chorus:** Kuzco, Kuzco, Kuzco

Kuzco (That's his name)

Kuzco, Kuzco (Is he hip or what?)

Kuzco (Don't you know he's the king of the world?)

Kuzco-(Oh yeah)-oooo (Owww!)

**Theme song Guy:**

There are despots and dictators

Political manipulators

There are blue bloods with the intellects of fleas

There are kings and petty tyrants

Who are so lacking in refinements

They'd be better suited swinging from the trees

He was born and raised to rule

No one has ever been this cool

In a thousand years of aristocracy

An enigma and a mystery

In Mesoamerican history

The quintessence of perfection that is he

**Kuzco:**

[spoken] OK, this is the real me, like this! Not this! Right! Wrong! Winner! Loser! OK, see this palace? Everyone in it is at my command. Check this out. Butler. Chef. Theme song guy.

**Theme Song Guy:**

He's the sovereign lord of the nation

He's the hippest cat in creation

He's the alpha, the omega, A to Z

And this perfect world will spin

Around his every little whim

'Cos this perfect world begins and ends with

**Kuzco:** Me!

What's his name?

**Chorus:** Kuzco, Kuzco (That's his name)

Kuzco (He's the king of the world)

Kuzco, Kuzco (Is he hip or what?)

Kuzco (Yeah)

**Kuzco:**

[spoken] Gow! You threw off my groove!

**Guard:**

[spoken] I'm sorry that you've thrown off the emperor's groove.

**Rudy:**

[spoken; voice fades] Sorry!

**Kuzco:**

You were saying?

**Theme Song Guy:**

[sung] What's his name?

**Chorus:** Kuzco, Kuzco, Kuzco

Kuzco (That's his name)

Kuzco, Kuzco (Is he hip or what?)

Kuzco (Don't you know he's the king of the world?)

Kuzco-(Oh yeah)-oooo (Owww!)

[instrumental interlude]

[interlude end]

**Kuzco:**

[spoken] BOOM baby!

You'd be the coolest dude in the nation

Or the hippest cat in creation

But if your ain't got friends then nothing's worth the fuss

A perfect world will come to be

When everybody here can see

That a perfect world begins and ends

A perfect world begins and ends

A perfect world begins and ends with us!

What's his name?

(Kuzco, Kuzco)

(Kuzco, Kuzco) Is he hip or what?

(Kuzco, Kuzco) Everybody, listen to him talk

Oh, yes, he's the man all right

He's the king of the world

Do you like him?

(Kuzco)

All right

(Kuzco, Kuzco)

(Kuzco, Kuzco)

(Kuzco, Kuzco)

(Kuzco)

You'd be the coolest dude in the nation

Or the hippest cat in creation

But if your ain't got friends then nothing's worth the fuss

A perfect world will come to be

When everybody here can see

That a perfect world begins and ends

A perfect world begins and ends

A perfect world begins and ends with us!

I'll be the sovereign queen of the nation

And the hippest chick in creation

I'm the cat with all the cream and ooh-la-la

This deadly concentration

Will put an end to my frustration

Now this perfect world begins and ends with *moi*

What's my name?

Yzma, Yzma, Yzma

Yzma (what's my name?)

Yzma, Yzma (What'd you say?)

Yzma (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)

Yzma