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Perfect is a track by The The, taken from the album “Soul Mining”, released July 6, 1987 on Epic. It runs 5:36. Use the Play button above when a verified stream is available, or choose a listening service from the other options.
Within the album sequence, this recording sits alongside I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow (All Of My Life), This Is the Day, The Sinking Feeling. Open the album page to compare the full running order and the listening options available for each song.
Song details
- Song
- Perfect
- Artist
- The The
- Release
- Soul Mining
- Format
- Album
- Duration
- 5:36
- Release date
- July 6, 1987
- Record label
- Epic
- Content notice
- Standard
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Lyrics
Find another songIt's a chilly English winter,
And solitude is never easy to maintain,
Except when it rains.
So I hang an empty smile beneath my empty eyes,
And go out for a walk.
The wet morning sun reflects off the paving-stones,
While a little dog barks its head off,
In the distance.
(x2)
Oh, what a perfect day,
To think about myself
My feet are firmly screwed to the floor.
What is there to fear from such a regular world?
Passing by a cemetery,
I think of all the little hopes and dreams,
That lie lifeless and unfulfilled beneath the soil.
I see an old man fingering his perishing flesh.
He tells himself he was a good man and did good things.
Amused and confused by life's little ironies,
He swallows his bottle of distilled damnation.
(x2)
Oh, what a perfect day,
To think about myself
My feet are firmly screwed to the floor.
What is there to fear from such a regular world?
People turn around with unseeing eyes.
They're looking for something that doesn't exist.
The world you once knew is being eaten up by rust.
No-one has time for the past, but still, in God they trust.
The future is now, but it's all going wrong.
Bodies queue for nothing, but it's to nothing they belong.
People say their prayers and some work hard.
If you give them all your money, they'll give you their hearts.
This town ain't getting like a ghost town.
It's getting like hell....
(x5)
Oh, what a perfect day,
To think about myself
My feet are firmly screwed to the floor.
What is there to fear from such a regular world?
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More from Soul Mining
- 01 I've Been Waitin' For Tomorrow (All Of My Life) 5:43
- 02 This Is the Day 4:57
- 03 The Sinking Feeling 3:41
- 04 Uncertain Smile 6:49
- 05 The Twilight Hour 5:55
- 06 Soul Mining 4:48
- 07 Giant 9:34