[(cut) from the musical 'High Fidelity']



We have to say good bye

All things have to end

But I keep insisting

I go on resisting

Why should I pretend?



We paid for some mistakes

We never should have made

So it seems we were living in dreams

But now those dreams fade



In a perfect world

You'd hold me forever

In a perfect world, our love would stand tall

But I'm not perfect

And you're not perfect

Cause is you were

I wouldn't have loved you

At all



It took a little time

For me to come so far

But finally I see

That our impurity

Makes us who we are



There's no going back

We can't undo the past

We've mastered the art

Of breaking apart

And falling so fast



In a perfect world

You wouldn't have left me

Feeling left out, abandoned, and small

But I'm not perfect

And you're not perfect

Cause if you were

I wouldn't have loved you



So I'm sorry for the million awful things I did and said

And the million other things I should have

Said and done instead

And I'm sorry you won't spend each minute

Growing old with me

I'm sorry that our life will never be



The two of us on Sunday morning

Waking as the light shines through

Knowing at that very moment

That I love you

And you love me, too



In a perfect world, we'd get to raise a family

In a perfect house with pictures on the wall

But I'm not perfect, and you're not perfect

And nothing's perfect

If we were perfect

We'd wake up one day

Unable to recall

If we had ever truly loved

At all