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Simple Plan – Perfect lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 wanna do?
But it hurts when you disapprove
All along
.

[Pre-Chorus]
And now I try hard to make it,
I just want to make you proud.
I'm never gonna be good enough for you.
I can't pretend that I'm alright,
And you can't change me
!

[Chorus]
'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
.

[Verse 2]
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.

[Pre-Chorus]
And now I try hard to make it,
I just want to make you proud.
I'm never gonna be good enough for you.
I can't stand another fight.
And nothing' alright!

[Chorus]
'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
.

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!

[Chorus]

'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.
'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.
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Songwriters: Arnold David Lanni, Charles-Andre Comeau, Jean-Francois Stinco, Pierre Bouvier, Sebastien Lefebvre
Perfect lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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  • o
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    OMG_Thatz_Insane
    No one is perfect, but your the best the way you are and you shouldnt change a thing about your self one time this boy use to make fun of my because I used to wear big shirts and not like the other girls in my skool but I can say it did annoy me but it turns out he liked me lolz, what a good way to show it right. But what I'm trying to say is that you are perfect the way you are, just the way you are.
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  • DarknessRains
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    DarknessRains
    Reminds me of my relationship with my father. We used to be super close, but he's so critical. Nothing is ever good enough. I always need to be better. Yeah, I get straight As, but now I should work harder at basketball. Oh now, I'm the best player on my team, but I should work harder at something else. There's always one more thing. I'm never good enough.
    And yeah, my dad and I still get along a lot of the time, but there's still that under current of how I'm not good enough. I'm smart, but I'm not pretty enough. I'm good at basketball, but I'm not good enough at softball.
    And I don't take a lot of opinions to heart, but he's my father, I listen to what he says. And he just keeps putting me down and nothing takes that away.
    This song is the perfect picture of it. Simple Plan=Love. :)
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  • U
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    Unregistered
    Ok this is really true I am just 11 dad doesn't scold me but sometimes he has ocd and he has I mean its not ocd anymore because it sooo I mean he really likes clean places even tiny dirt he gets mad now mom me and my sis is so mad at his we start telling secrets though I love him and whenever he tell us to clean he doesn't say it in a good manner like "please clean the house" he says "you are all girls you should know how to clean s*** if you want another father go go away from this house" mom keeps on telling him someday you will I mean they will go out at this world and maybe your or we are the only one left now whose gonna clean the house? And I have a dream give dad a freaking white all white house the inside is all white!
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  • U
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    Unregistered
    I think it's about my mom. She always want me to be the best, although she knows that I'm not gonna like it. I'm not really happy doing jobs that I don't really like and enjoy but because of her, I tried to be strong until one day I confessed to her about my feelings that I want to do what I love and I said to her that I don't mind if the salary is not high as long as I am happy. She always make my life as a robot that she could control. All that she wants is her reputation as a supermom in her office. I really hope that she would understand me with all of her heart, telling that it's okay to choose what I really want, and help me when I'm feeling down. But all I know is she'll never change of what she is and I am the one who should change my feelings even though I am not willing to. Even if I'm choked up, I have to be a good daughter and listen to her. I know it's not hard but having different type of passion makes me feel loathe for her. Should I die or what?
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  • c_j
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    c_j
    Ohh. For me its my mom. She's forcing me to be a nurse, just like her, but I don't think I'm gonna be successful.
    I hate it when she tells me how stupid I am and I am never gonna be successful in life. Just like this song. His dad always makes him do everything. Its like he's a robot or a puppet. And because he respects his father he followed whut his dad made him do. And it turns out to be a disaster. Everything just went wrong.
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  • U
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    Unregistered
    This song reminds me of me and my dad but we were never close we still aren't he always tells me I'm a quitter sadly. The person the song relates to is saying that his/her father isn't supporting them and is telling them to do better, that there not good enough at what they're doing.
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  • U
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    Unregistered
    It is most likely what many of us want to say to our parents. No one is perfect in this world but we are all trying our very best not to let our parents down. However, in our parents point of view, sometimes we are just not good enough. This song fully illustrate the father and child relationship whereby the child has been trying hard to keep up to his daddy's standard, but his dad just don't see it. It said in the song that they couldn't go back which means life cannot possibly start all over again, so the child can never go back to baby stage and grow up according to his daddy's plans. Lastly, this song also means an apology from child to his father.
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  • o
    + 2
    OwlCityBabe
    Well I think that simple plan write this song to speal out to reades who have lost there dad to a bad life of drugs or have passed away like me and my dad lost to a bad life of drugs and now me and my sister are getting him back on track of a normal life and that he also means after something like that has happend nothing will ever be the same again={
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  • U
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    I think this song means the things teenagers go through just to get their parent, or parents in some cases, attention. They may not be the first born or they may not be the baby of the family or they may have parents that don't "have time" to spend time with them. Either way I think the song means a child that strives for that attention that only their parent can give them and they aren't getting it.
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      No one is perfect, but your the best the way you are and you shouldnt change a thing about your... Read more →
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      Reminds me of my relationship with my father. We used to be super close, but he's so critical.... Read more →

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