Perfect Idiot

from Let's Make A Problem by JVA

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PERFECT IDIOT
I wanted to depend on her. But she let me down. Now I’m a fool.
She’s like that all the time. Laughing at this love of mine.
All my friends say she’ll destroy me in the end, I’ll see.

But I know she’s the only one, the only for me...

She won’t tell me where she goes.
She won’t tell me who she’s with.
We’ve never had a conversation.
There’s never been a goodnight kiss.
My mind used to be so healthy, now I’m on one knee

Still I know she’s the only one, the only for me...

I’ve made myself the perfect life. The perfect lie.
The perfect mess.
And it’s perfectly clear that I’m a perfect idiot, and I don’t care.
I’ll just keep on telling her, and someday she might see.

Cause I know she’s the only one, the only for me...

I know this probably won’t ever come to be.
That there’ll be the tiniest place in her life for me.

I remember way back when. Old history. Worlds apart
I left behind the green, green grass
for this ghost town in my heart.
Voices from that past say just run from all this misery...

But I know she’s the only one, the only for me...

I’ve made myself the perfect life. The perfect lie.
The perfect mess.
And it’s perfectly clear that I’m a perfect idiot, and I don’t care.
I’ll just keep on telling her, and someday she might see.

Cause I know she’s the only one, the only for me...
Cause I know she’s the only one, the only for me...

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from Let's Make A Problem, released April 28, 2011
Jim Walker - Keyboards, Lead Vx, BG Vx

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