Everything's Perfect
She's fragile and
slender and fading fast
So in a voice so tender she asks if I could lend her a helping hand,
A hand that would end her strife
"Love is only for poets & dreams are for fools
And on all beauty you'll find time's always cruel
If you see what I see, then say after me
I'll fight my firight & do as you ask tonight"
Ever since my heart
chose to choose her,
I've known I would lose her
But I will excuse her, I could never refuse her anything
Cause I'm not a poet, no I'm just a fool
And the beauty she speaks of keeps her as the exception to the rule
But I see what I see, so I know what it'll be
I'll fight my fright and I'll do as she's asked me to do tonight
All will be forgiven
It's from love that I've been driven
And time will skip a moment where it's perfect
And I'll kiss her lips as she slips away
You said you'd
die for me
You said you'd die for me
So why can't you live for me
Why won't you live for me
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Recorded & produced at Magnetophonic Labs by Even Johansen.
Mixed by Jørgen Træn at Sawmills, Cornwall.
- Appears on:
- On Your Side - Track 1
- Even Johansen:
- all singing and playing
‘Everything's Perfect’ was about a really really dear friend of mine in Norway who killed herself. And it's sort of how she felt, she was suffering cancer and stuff. And basically she didn't want to live. Sort of talking to her about it…sorry it's so depressing…
—Even