Simple Plan: Perfect Meaning
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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
And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you...
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Every time a heard this song,it make me cry ! It is so beautiful,and it is related to all of us whose perents expected us to be perfect ! I train 2 sports,i am streight A student(2nd year of highschool) and they still expected me to be even better. I am not fat,but i am not skinny eather,and they want me to be skinny,i was on too much preasure and i started to cutting my self ! So here you are perents you make kids life miserable and they suffer because of you !!
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it's good...
for all the teens who stuck with their parent 'cause they want their "plan"
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this song is one of my favorite.. the lyrics are straight forward. the 1st stanza is telling his dad to talk to him. the lyrics says this is me. i wanted to be me. is there any wrong for being myself.. this is my life.. the lyrics says sorry for the mistakes that i have done to you but this is real me. well i am not that perfect.. thats my interpretation for this song..
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So many people have answered this one VERY accurately, and my entry will make absolutely no difference, just that I can relate a bit to this song. Most people wouldn't even cast a compassionate glance in my direction for what I feel relates to this song for me. I'm expected to be "perfect", by my father. I'm so far from perfect it isn't funny, but my father seems bent on having a perfect child to make up for the teenagers he tried to raise before me.
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Let me just preface this interpretation by saying that none of us are perfect. Every single one of us has to battle our own demons every day in hopes that we will be given someone's approval as a reward.
That being said, this song has 3 basic parts:
Act I (Acceptance)
Act II (Denial)
Act III (Reiteration)
Act I really puts forth the mood for the song. I personally grew up with 2 (gay) dads, and I never felt good enough for either of them. They always wanted me to try things I was never comfortable doing. Some of them were borderline illegal. Every night I'd try to do a little more, but I never felt like I was pleasing them, even when I was the lucky pierre. Maybe God will understand.
Act II speaks REALLY strongly to me. It transcends all elements of traditional denial with underlining metaphors. When he says "Did you know that you used to be my hero?" I think he really means "Did you know that you used to be my hero, until you started sexually abusing me?" Also, when he says "I can't stand another fight" I know he really means "I can't stand when you bite my foreskin. That really hurt last time." To me this is the overall dramatic shift in tone in the song and sets up for a totally magical finale.
Act III is reiteration of all the elements presented earlier in the song, just repeated over and over....and over again.
"'Cuz 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"
Truer words were never put forth so eloquently. I can't be perfect, either. None of us can be perfect until we accept that none of us are perfect.When God created us in his mold, he shaped our moral clay with some intentional imperfections, ergo leaving us to struggle our entire lives searching for an answer to our own existence. The truth? I don't think we can handle the truth. Salvation lay within, my friends. -
This is one of my favorite songs, because to my dad no matter how hard I try I will never be good enough. I bought it for all of my life except this past year. I finally figured out that I will NEVER be good enough for him, so why should I try. And this year I have found myself, someone who tries hard but doesn't go too overboard. So for anyone who is reading this, you are good enough, don't belive them. They ain't worth SHIT!!
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I think this song is absolutely amazing, mainly because it can be understood by any teenager in the world. We all have been through disappointing our parents, I know I have. They pay all this money for me to go to a fancy college prep school, and therefore I have all this pressure to get good grades. It's so hard to please them; this song really lets me understand that everyone goes through this. Everyone sees the disappointment in their parents eyes, or the tone in their voice when they talk to you. It's so hard to please them, and because that's what I've been trying to do my whole life, it lead to my eating disorder. So I thank simple plan.
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This song is basically about never being good enough for your parents. I relate to this song a lot because I have and older sister and younger brother. My parents are always congratulating them if the get a B- in a class. I play on all the sports teams at my school and I think my dad came to 1 game in the past 2 years. I also get like a's on my report card most of the time. The lowest grade I have gotton in my whole life so far has been a B-. I think I've been told good job or that's awesome for my grades 5 times. (I am 14 and a freshmen in high school) In fact just the otheer night I got an A+ on my test and I told my dad and all he said was mhmm. Wait it gets even better. After I told him he says Hey Dalton (younger brother) who did you play with at school today. Dalton told my dad who he played with and dad said "that's awesome I am proud that you made a new friend" I can't remember the last timemy dad said he was proud of me. Anyways about the song. You know basically just saying that you try to make your parents proud of you and try to do what you want to do and it just doesn't work out. Your parents always ttell you to be yourself and then when you are they try to change you.
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THIS SONG IS AMAZING! Simple Plan are awesome and can definitely come up with some great lyrics!! No one can say this song has no meaning to it!! Although this ain't my case I still find it amazing!!
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I love this song! And I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Jeff actually wrote it. It's about his dad and how he died of cancer before the band really became famous and never had the chance to see them do well.
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I agree with the last person only in my case its my mom! I get great grades but if its anything worse than an 'A-' she says 'dear I know you can do better' psh she didn't take geometry in 8th grade and I don't think she was in a GT class either!! every time I do something... ANYTHING wrong she flips out!! it drives me insane! but this song helps me remember that I'm not the only one out here
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I can relate to this song a lot. I am like the biggest nerd, I get good grades and I never get detentions or anything but my dad still thinks I'm this rebellious daughter but I haven't even done anything wrong.
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I think this song is for anyone who's had a hard relationship with their parents or a relative. I think it's saying that someone is trying their hardest for a person they love, but it's never any good. And they keep pushing and striving to be the best, and end up losing it all. It reminds me of a story I read once called The Scarlet Ibis, about a crippled boy whose brother pushes him to be normal, and he pushes so hard, the crippled boy dies at the end. I can relate to this because I've felt at times when someone expects me to be perfect and I feel like it's never going to be good enough for them.
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The song is more about him not ever being good enough for his dad. It straight up says "hey dad look at me think back and talk to me did I grow up according to plan" its all about him not being good enough for his dad and not being the way his dad wanted him to be and the kinda lost relationship between them "nothing's gonna change the things that you said nothing's gonna make this right again please don't turn your back I can't believe its hard just to talk to you but you don't understand" probably sums up the whole song.
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