“In a Perfect World”

GIRL CHARLIE: Charlie.
CHARLIE: Charlie.
GIRL CHARLIE: Charlie.

CHARLIE: I guess we won.
The task’s completed.
I guess we’re done
with what we’ve been through.
GIRL CHARLIE: With that ordeal?
Since he’s retreated?
Or is this really
‘bout me and you?

CHARLIE: You know I wish
this were just the start of our
GIRL CHARLIE: oddball tryst,
CHARLIE: of this passing haze.
BOTH: So we’re resigned
to leaving part of
ourselves behind
when we part ways.

CHARLIE: ‘Cause in a perfect world,
we could be together.
GIRL CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
this wouldn’t be our fate.
CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
I’d have met you at the movies,
GIRL CHARLIE: on a cruise,
CHARLIE: on jury duty,
BOTH: on a double date.

BOTH: Yeah, in a perfect world,
none of this would matter.
In a perfect world,
we’d have met before.
GIRL CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
I’d have met you at the prom,
CHARLIE: at a bar,
GIRL CHARLIE: on Match dot com,
BOTH: at the Apple Store.

BOTH: But this world isn’t perfect,
that much is for sure.

GIRL CHARLIE: I guess we planned—
CHARLIE: that I’d be leaving.
GIRL CHARLIE: And once you vanish—
CHARLIE: I can’t come back.
GIRL CHARLIE: So go, get bent,
and don’t go grieving
with false laments
of untraveled tracks.

CHARLIE: I guess you know—
GIRL CHARLIE: How much you’ll miss me?
CHARLIE: I have to go, though.
GIRL CHARLIE: The moment’s passed.
BOTH: So that’s the end.
But how I wish we
could keep pretending
that this could last.

CHARLIE: And in a perfect world,
I might think I love you.
GIRL CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
I might think it too.
CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
I’d have met you at a disco,
GIRL CHARLIE: at the mall,
CHARLIE: in San Francisco,
BOTH: at the Seaworld zoo.

BOTH: Yeah, in a perfect world,
I could stay here with you.
In a perfect world,
we would somehow persevere.
CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
I’d have met you in the classroom,
GIRL CHARLIE: in a seedy nightclub bathroom,
BOTH: anywhere but here.

BOTH: But this world isn’t perfect,
that is crystal clear.

CHARLIE:
When I met you, I was scared but you just smiled,
and nothing was the same.
You just grabbed my hand and pulled me through the wild,
and my whole world changed.

Because
Through your eyes, I saw a new side of me.
Through your voice, I heard mine speak clear.
In your heart, I felt something lovely.
Distant visions you brought me nearer
to. And now I see myself, a better self in you.

GIRL CHARLIE: And in a perfect world,
we could be together.
CHARLIE: In a perfect world,
this wouldn’t be the end.
BOTH: In a perfect world,
I’d extend this strange endeavor,
wouldn’t have to leave forever,
wouldn’t lose a friend.

BOTH: But in a perfect world,
there wouldn’t be a portal.
He would not exist,
or he never would have strayed.
In a perfect world,
there would be no pass to get through,
so I never would have met you,
wouldn’t be a way.

BOTH: So this world isn’t perfect,
maybe that’s okay.

back to lyrics