Perfect Lyrics

[Intro]
Perfect
Perfect

[Verse 1]
I know we're just like old friends
We just can't pretend
That lovers make amends


[Verse 2]
We are reasons so unreal
We can't help but feel
That something has been lost


[Pre-Chorus]
But please, you know you're just like me
Next time (Time), I promise we'll be

[Chorus]
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect strangers down the line

Lovers out of time
Memories unwind

[Post-Chorus]
So far, I still know who you are
But now (Now), I wonder who I was
[Verse 3]
Angel, you know it's not the end
We'll always be good friends

The letters have been sent on

[Pre-Chorus]
So please, you always were so free
You'll see (See), I promise we'll be


[Chorus]
Perfect
Perfect strangers when we meet

Strangers on the street
Lovers while we sleep

[Outro]
Perfect, you know this has to be
We always were so free
We promised that we'd be
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect

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About

Genius Annotation

The second and final commercial single off the Pumpkins' 1998 album Adore.

“Perfect” is in many ways a “sister song” to the band’s biggest hit, “1979” – from Rolling Stone magazine stating that it “picks up on the synth-pop echoes of the 1996 Pumpkins hit” to the music video, which is a sequel to “1979”.

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What has Billy Corgan said about this song?
Genius Answer

The Pumpkins frontman wrote in Adore’s reissue liner notes:

Penned in Los Angeles, ‘Perfect’ was a late addition to the fold; my inspiration the coming break-up of two people I once thought I admired. To state the obvious, the lyric is meant as ironic, as little in love’s affairs can be quantified as perfect. Yet this is the goal. Rekindling the memory, I am still scarred by making what was then, and now, so disappointing a video; where even our attempt to reassemble the beguiling cast of ‘1979’ was fated from the first; with one of them sitting at that moment in jail. On top of this I decided my lip sync should be filmed from on high, and a 150 ft. high crane was located for rent. Soon such heights revealed my fear of them, and as I tried to sing I found I couldn’t stop shaking. Affecting what became a tremulous, unfortunate delirium that would last a week

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