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Just a perfect day
Drink Sangria in the park
And then later
When it gets dark, we go home
Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later
A movie, too, and then home
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun
Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was
Someone else, someone good
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
Drink Sangria in the park
And then later
When it gets dark, we go home
Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later
A movie, too, and then home
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun
Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was
Someone else, someone good
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Perfect Day Lyrics as written by Lou Reed
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I have a friend who goes on and on about this song being about heroin. I disagree. It might have been written whilst on heroin, hence the blissed-out nature of the lyrics, but Lou was very straightforward about his substance abuse and would not have tried to subtly 'conceal' an alternative druggie meaning to any of his songs IMO. Also, as the previous poster said, the imagery doesn't fit in with any of Lou's other drugs songs. Even Heroin, with its clean guitars and lapses into dreamlike imagery, was full of needles and corpses.
It is definitely about heroin. The point is that he is describing the blissed out high and how he enjoyed his day up. This is probably best alluded to in "you made me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good" - a common feature of heroin use that sees users shedding their self-loathing while high. The coda is a rumination on both long term effects and withdrawal.