Everything is perfect now
I don't want to make a movement
I'm too scared to breathe; I might do something wrong
As you're sleeping silently
Perfect beauty laid before me
I feel every second is a life time long

Here's a place I've been before
A place some say I should go more
But every journey just leads me so far away
When I just wanted to stay

So that's why I won't wake you where you lie
If I could now I'd freeze time
I can't find forever in your eyes
I should leave you while they're dry

Living underneath this guilt
I can't leave a house that I have built
Though I feel it sinking further everytime
And th weight of my mistakes
Means that everything I touch breaks
I don't want to see you as the next in line

So that's why I won't wake you where you lie
If I could now I'd freeze time
I can't find forever in your eyes
I should leave you while they're dry


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Perfect Now Lyrics as written by Robert Cranny

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    Forgot to add in the music video it ends with her packing a bag and walking away from her sleeping lover. It is a beautiful video as well.

    Jaylaron January 19, 2007   Link

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