The Perfect Kiss

Album: Low-Life (1985)
Charted: 46
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  • I stood there beside myself
    Thinking hard about the weather
    Then came by a friend of mine
    Suggested we go out together
    Then I knew it from the start
    This friend of mine would fall apart
    Pretending not to see his gun
    I said let's go out and have some fun

    I know you know
    We believe in a land of love
    I know you know
    We believe in a land of love

    I have always thought about
    Staying here and going out
    Tonight I should have stayed at home
    Playing with my pleasure zone
    He has always been so strange
    I'd often thought he was deranged
    Pretending not to see his gun
    I said let's go out and have some fun

    I know you know
    We believe in a land of love
    I know you know
    We believe in a land of love

    When you are alone at night
    You search yourself for all the things
    That you believe are right
    If you give it all away
    You throw away your only chance to be here today
    Then a fight breaks out on your street
    You lose another broken heart in a land of meat
    My friend, he took his final breath
    Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death Writer/s: Bernard Sumner, Gillian Lesley Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Paul David Morris
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Nathan Whitfield from Chattanooga, TennesseeLOVE this track! Masterpiece. My 2nd favorite by them (Bizarre Love Triangle being my fave). I want to ask the same question as Mike from Germany, what is the intense squeeling towards the end?! And is that cowbell I hear in the middle, that gongs a few times?
  • Mike from GermanyWhat does the braking sound of the car tires in the song mean? At the end of the song there is the sound of a car crash? Does this mean a suicide at the end, because in the official video afterwards everyone seems somehow affected?
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