What does Perfect Day mean?

Lou Reed: Perfect Day Meaning

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Perfect Day Lyrics

Just a perfect day

drink sangria in a 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


refrain:

Oh it's such a perfect day

I'm glad I spend it with...

  1. anonymous
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    Oct 5th 2018 !⃝

    I lived on the streets for a bit and this song always reminded of Methadone maintenance crowd. They only had to be somewhere twice a day and the rest of the day they would just hang around the park without care in the world...

  2. anonymous
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    Aug 28th 2016 !⃝

    I think it is simply a sarcastic song about someone waiting for a lover who stands them up.

  3. anonymous
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    Jul 31st 2010 !⃝

    It's a song about his love for heroin. But he knows that is all just a skin wrapped around misery.


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