Perfect Love

Story Behind The Song

Written two years after the end of á marriage

Song Description

Reflections on a broken marriage, and the false belief in and idealized 'perfect' love

Song Length 4:07 Genre Country - Traditional, Country - General
Tempo Slow (71 - 90) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Disgusting, Frenetic Subject Breaking Up, Divorce
Similar Artists Patsy Cline, Leon Russell Language English
Era 1990 - 1999

Lyrics

Sun down on another day
Lights fade but the shadows stay
On my way, but it's not the same without you

Work up to a lonely dawn
Kids playing on our front lawn
Radio plays the same old songs, but they're blue

Two weeks without you
And I know now what loneliness means
I guess our perfect love
Wasn't everything it seemed

Found a job and a place to stay
Friends call on the holidays
Mostly say they don't understand
But they do

Never thought it would be like this
Say our life, in our first kiss
Now I find all the things I miss
Weren't true

Two long without you
And my life falls apart at the seams
I guess our perfect love
Wasn't everything it seemed

Sometimes the love that we've known
Is the one thing that tears us apart
And the road on our own
Is the one sure fire way to the heart
But for all I've been shown
Can't find my way back to the start
Oh why?
Oh I didn't know losing you
Would follow me so far

Now I look to anothers' face
In another time and space
Oh but time can't erase the pain in my heart

Two years without you
And I know now what loneliness means
I guess our perfect love
Wasn't everything it seemed

Lyrics Brett Perkins Music Brett Perkins
Producer Brett Perkins/Soren Jacobsen Publisher Bug Music
Performance Brett Perkins Label Works of Heart

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