The Perfect Life
by Moby

Album: Innocents (2013)
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  • Oh
    We close our eyes
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    You open up when you had me in your hands
    Slipping far away with the world at your command
    You sing me to sleep and then you hit me awake
    It's a perfect life, a perfect life

    I only want to be here when you're by my side
    Oh I believe now, I'll love you 'til I die
    You will sing me to sleep, you will hit me awake
    In the perfect life, the perfect life

    Oh
    We close our eyes
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    Oh
    We close our eyes
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    Little Mike he, steps everywhere
    Knives in his pockets and bullets in his hair
    He has nothing to live for, nothing left to say
    He's locking all the doors to keep the older wolves at bay

    Spoons and foil are all he needs.
    A bed and some china
    A lighter and some speed
    It will sing you to sleep, it will hit you awake
    In the perfect life, a perfect life.

    Oh
    We close our eyes
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    Oh
    It goes all night
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    Oh
    We close our eyes
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    Oh
    We close our mind
    The perfect life, life
    Is all we need

    The perfect life, the perfect life, the perfect life
    The perfect life, the perfect life, the perfect life
    All we need Writer/s: Richard Melville Hall
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • E. Martin from Virginia"The Perfect Life" has really depressing lyrics, describing drug addiction. But the upbeat tune somehow makes it feel okay.
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