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Perfect Place Lyrics
We are all together alone
And these are just wishes
And I am just dreaming.
If I ever grow up I will take care of the old and
All the babies that have no one.
You might think I give myself
Too much credit but I am just dreaming.
'Cause not much is sacred,
There's not really much to do here any more.
I don't feel like you said,
I walk the earth my darling but I never feel at home
and we all say
I will change tomorrow.
I will change it all tomorrow.
I will assure all of the husbands who are guilty
And the wives who feel useless.
I will nurse all of the black and blue babies
With their unhappy parents who had unhappy parents.
I will assure all of the Boys who feel awkward
And the girls who feel clumsy.
I will walk alongside the old man who feels so alone as everyone rushes by him.
You might think I give myself too much credit but I am just dreaming.
I don't feel like you said,
I walk the earth my darling but I never feel at home,
And we all say
I will change tomorrow.
And these are just wishes
And I am just dreaming.
If I ever grow up I will take care of the old and
All the babies that have no one.
You might think I give myself
Too much credit but I am just dreaming.
'Cause not much is sacred,
There's not really much to do here any more.
I don't feel like you said,
I walk the earth my darling but I never feel at home
and we all say
I will change tomorrow.
I will change it all tomorrow.
I will assure all of the husbands who are guilty
And the wives who feel useless.
I will nurse all of the black and blue babies
With their unhappy parents who had unhappy parents.
I will assure all of the Boys who feel awkward
And the girls who feel clumsy.
I will walk alongside the old man who feels so alone as everyone rushes by him.
You might think I give myself too much credit but I am just dreaming.
I don't feel like you said,
I walk the earth my darling but I never feel at home,
And we all say
I will change tomorrow.
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Submitted by
lizardwings182 On Jun 20, 2002
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A nice ambiguity in the first line. Are they saying "we are altogether alone", i.e. we are all hopelessly alienated, or "we are all together, alone", i.e. our very sense of alienation gives us something in common?
The song comes across to me as the cry of a desperate idealist. She can see what she's up against, but she still wants to try to make the world better, no matter how hopeless it seems.
My favourite song of theirs.