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Perfect by Amber Run

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Amber Run

Perfect

Release date: 10th February 2017

From For a Moment, I Was Lost
Track 8
3:09
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About This Track

'Perfect' by Amber Run is an indie rock single from the album 'For a Moment, I Was Lost' released in 2017. The lyrics frame a restless wish to be controlled and shaped by someone else, alongside longing for intensity, attachment, and a kind of idealised otherness, with the voice sounding both eager and self-questioning as it asks how and why to be what the object of desire demands. One line captures the seduction of perfection, “I want to be perfect just like you”, while the rest presses on the cost of getting there, and the desire to be lifted up, kept hanging, and held just out of reach.

"Perfect" is a track by Amber Run, from the album For a Moment, I Was Lost, released 10th February 2017. The track is 3:09 long. It's filed under Indie Rock. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Amber Run

Amber Run

Lyrics

Perfect

I want to be perfect just like you
Pull my strings, show me what to do
I want to be high and never come down
I want to know why, and I want to know how

I want to fall in love with a perfect stranger
And out of touch with the God that made her
I want her to pick me up and hang me out to dry
Show me glimpses of the other side

Karma, karma, you reap what you sow
Karma, karma, please pay what I'm owed

I've got to be perfect
I've got to be perfect

Pick my pocket when my back is turned
Then lecture me on what I've learnt
I want to be perfect just like you
Pull my strings, show me what to do

Karma, karma, you reap what you sow
Karma, karma, please pay what I'm owed

I've got to be perfect
Perfect

You can hold me down
You can let me go
You can spurn my art
You can break my bones
And call it karma, karma
I'm falling further, further

Oh, I want to be perfect just like you
Pull my strings, show me what to do
But karma, karma
Please pay what I'm owed

I've got to be perfect
Perfect

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Track details

From For a Moment, I Was Lost

3:092017
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For a Moment, I Was Lost
For a Moment, I Was Lost
Amber Run
10th February 2017
Track number
8
Release year
2017
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