Broken Transmission

Perfect World

Verse 1

The sun is shining every morning,

Every face is full of light,

Everybody knows their purpose,

Everything will be alright.

We hold hands beneath the colors,

Laughing underneath the sky,

No one's lonely, no one's hurting,

No one ever asks us why.

We sing the same familiar songs,

We tell ourselves that nothing's wrong,

A perfect world, a perfect life,

A perfect place where we belong.

Pre-Chorus

But there's a crack beneath the surface,

There's a tremor in the ground,

All the smiles are getting heavier,

And the silence screams too loud.

We're pretending we're not breaking,

We're pretending we're okay,

But the mask is getting thinner,

And it's starting to slip away.

Chorus

We're all brothers in a perfect world,

We're all sisters in a perfect world.

Then why do we have imperfections?

Why can't we stand our own reflection?

Why do we break down during the night?

Why do we hate when there isn't light?

If we're supposed to have it all,

Then why does everybody fall?

Verse 2

Now the colors feel much colder,

And the streets don't feel the same,

Every mirror shows a stranger,

Every smile feels like a game.

We learned how to hide our bruises,

How to laugh when something hurts,

How to tell the world we're perfect

While we're crumbling beneath the surface.

Everybody says we're equal,

Everybody says we're free,

But if nobody's allowed to suffer,

Why can't suffering be seen?

Pre-Chorus 2

And the cracks become a canyon,

And the whispers become screams,

All the things we buried underneath

Are crawling through our dreams.

We kept saying we'd be better,

Kept pretending we were strong,

But perfection was a prison

And we finally proved it wrong.

Chorus

We're all brothers in a perfect world,

We're all sisters in a perfect world.

Then why do we have imperfections?

Why can't we stand our own reflection?

Why do we break down during the night?

Why do we hate when there isn't light?

If we're supposed to have it all,

Then why does everybody fall?

Bridge

Maybe we're not meant to be perfect.

Maybe that's the point we've missed.

Maybe every broken piece of us

Still deserves to exist.

Maybe the darkness isn't evil,

Maybe tears don't make us weak,

Maybe being human means admitting

We don't always know what we need.

So let the perfect world collapse.

Let every painted smile come down.

I'd rather see the truth in someone's eyes

Than live inside a perfect town.

Final Chorus

We're all brothers in an imperfect world,

We're all sisters in an imperfect world.

And now I see our imperfections

Are the proof that we're reflections

Of every night we made it through,

Every time we thought we were doomed.

Maybe we were never meant to have it all,

Maybe we're meant to catch each other when we fall.

Outro

There was never a perfect world.

There was never a perfect life.

There were only imperfect people

Trying to find a little light.

And maybe that's enough.