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Simple Plan

Perfect

Release date: 19th March 2002

From No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (15th Anniversary Tour Edition)
Track 12
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About This Track

'Perfect' opens with a direct address to a father, the narrator asking whether he has lived up to expectation. Simple Plan frame the song as a reckoning with parental disapproval, the verses tracing a relationship that has curdled from hero-worship to distance. The chorus repeats the apology, 'I'm sorry, I can't be perfect', over a structure built for arena singalongs.

The bridge shifts register briefly, the plea not to turn away cutting through the defiance elsewhere. Released in March 2002 on 'No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls', the track runs four minutes and thirty-seven seconds and has accumulated over three hundred and thirty-seven million streams on Spotify. The 15th Anniversary Tour Edition reissue keeps the original recording intact, the production unchanged from the Lava Records release.

"Perfect" is a single by Simple Plan, from the album No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (15th Anniversary Tour Edition), released 19th March 2002. The track is 4:37 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Simple Plan.

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Simple Plan

Simple Plan

Lyrics

Perfect

Hey, dad, look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan?
And do you think I'm wasting my time
Doing things I want to do?
But it hurts when you disapprove all along

And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
Can't pretend that I'm all right
And you can't change me

'Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect

I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be my hero?
All the days you spent with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don't care anymore

And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you

Can't stand another fight
And nothing's alright
'Cause we lost it all
And nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect

Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect
Nothing's gonna change the things that you said

And nothing's gonna make this right again
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard just to talk to you
But you don't understand (you don't understand)

'Cause we lost it all
And nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect

'Cause we lost it all
And nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry, I can't be perfect

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From No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (15th Anniversary Tour Edition)

4:372002Single
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No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (15th Anniversary Tour Edition)
No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (15th Anniversary Tour Edition)
Simple Plan
19th March 2002
Track number
12
Release year
2002
  1. 1I'd Do Anything
    3:18
  2. 2The Worst Day Ever
    3:27
  3. 3You Don't Mean Anything
    2:29
  4. 4I'm Just a Kid

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Arnold Lanni, Chuck Comeau, Pierre Bouvier
    Producer
    Arnold Lanni
    Bass
    David Desrosiers
    Drums
    Chuck Comeau
    Guitar
    Jeff Stinco, Sébastien Lefebvre
    Vocals
    Pierre Bouvier
    Background Vocals
    David Desrosiers, Sébastien Lefebvre
    Digital Audio Editor
    Angelo Caruso, Dom Condo, Ziad Al-Hillal
    Mastering Engineer
    George Marino
    Mixing Engineer
    Arnold Lanni
    Recording Engineer
    Angelo Caruso, Arnold Lanni, Ziad Al-Hillal
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