Nobody’s Perfect
Nobody’s Perfect
Verse 1:
What did you do when the demons ruled?
Stared you in the eyes with vision red
What did you find in the lonesomeness and dread?
Look at you now, crawlin’ dirty, broken down
In bondage and in chains even though
you said that left you to, your life might end
Chorus:
Nobody’s perfect
No, not even you
Nobody’s worth it
More than me, or more than you
Verse 2:
I sit here now on a simple day
Looking back over the past few years
Was never gonna let them go, I felt them here to stay
Not knowing that you might pass away
Stuffin’ all the reflections down like tears
But I remember it was not me that brought you here
But it was something so much bigger that’s already won the battle over fear
Chorus:
Nobody’s perfect
No, not even you
Nobody’s worth it
More than me, or more than you
Bridge:
Once you believed in only you
Only believed in what you can touch and you can do
Well I’m here to ask you one question: Why you?
What have you done that let you to this loaded gun?
Your family is in the front seat now, unbuckled and falling out of their head for you
That’s something you never had
Chorus:
Nobody’s perfect
No, not even you
Nobody’s worth it
More than me, or more than you
Centering prayer:
I am perfectly imperfect.
About:
My friend “Big” Bill wrote many songs about life, losing his family to his heroine addiction & alcoholism. We were best friends during my college years, and wrote many songs together.
After his sudden death in 2007, I wrote this song, the lyrics alluding to many of his song titles and lyrics, but integrating them into a song about the most human of traits: imperfection.
Nobody is perfect, not even you. Not even me. But, we are all worthy of love, affection, and life. This song is a song I sing when I need the reminder that life is precious, sacred, a gift, even when experienced through the death of a best friend.