Songfacts®:

• We've heard that perfection is the enemy of good. Anyone who's worked on a project with someone who endlessly refines knows this is true. But this song is more about rejecting the social-media-filtered image of perfection and accepting yourself for who you are.
  
  Red Jumpsuit Apparatus frontman Ronnie Winter calls it a song about "embracing one's flaws and the true beauty that lies within. It's a song about individuality, self-acceptance, and the idea that our scars and imperfections make us who we are."
• "Perfection" is part of the 2025 TRJA album X's for Eyes, their first since The Awakening in 2018. The group had a hit right away with their first single, "Face Down," in 2006. In later years, they targeted their music more toward the Christian market, but X's for Eyes is more secular and even political at times, particularly on the track "Slipping Through (No Kings)."
• The music video, directed by Shane Drake, follows a visual motif from the X's for Eyes album by showing people with black X's over their eyes. In this case, the characters are people who look out of place in their chosen fields but come together in the end for a big ol' party.