Lou Reed - Perfect Day (Official Audio)

It's so strange how a song called "Perfect Day" is one that I find myself wanting to listen to when my day is everything but perfect.

"You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good" might be the most relatable lyric in history.

I used to play this song as the heroin hit, every relapse, after relapse. It's the sixth year anniversary of me getting sober today. Still love this song, it just means something very different now.

best song, best movie. thank you Lou Reed, thank you Wim Wenders.

My wife and I danced to this at our wedding reception. The greatest day of my life and an appropriate song for the occasion. At the time I was in the Army and was a severe alcoholic. The lyrics at the end was the cherry on top because she was fully aware of what she was willing to get into. I’ll never forget hearing her cry over the phone a couple years after we got married when I told her my chain of command signed off for me to get help at a rehabilitation center in Oregon. I got off of heroin through the same means to be able to join the Army so she was aware that I had already gone through a withdrawal process. 7 years clean of heroin, 3 years sober of alcohol. Thank you so much my dear Hannah for taking a chance with me. Thank you so much Lou for all of your work I’ve listened to ever since my father raised me with your art. We now have two beautiful children, I was able to successfully transition back into civilian life, and the future looks quite promising. Some folks can’t comprehend the power of art and music, but it’s a power that can’t possibly be denied.

This song is like watching something beautiful die.

Reed's voice breaking on 2:11 is one of things which makes this song excellent.

My father died about 9 months ago... I'm glad I spent 17 years with you, dad.

This is what having fun with depression is like.

Lou Reed brought me here, nothing less, nothing more.

When I was in active heroin addiction I truly understood the bittersweet feel of this song. Longing for the high and longing to be clean at the same time. Clean today I still love it.

Lou was a deeply flawed man. His music was honest, simple, and intimate. That’s what makes him so relatable.

Produced by David Bowie Lou Reed - vocals Mick Ronson - piano, string arrangements David Bowie - keyboards Trevor Bolder: trumpet Herbie Flowers: tuba Klaus Voormann - bass John Halsey - drums

"You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good". Hits too hard man. Too hard

This was "our song"! My fiancée and I kept each other hanging on... every day was a perfect day with her! I miss her so much! Rest in peace Shelly. I love you!!! Always and forever!!! ♥️♥️♥️

After listening to this I have a sudden urge to clean toilets in Tokyo.

This song hurts...its a piece of art.

I can't explain the nightmare I just went through searching for this song, the sense of relief I am feeling having found it, but I will try. I thought I was going fucking nuts. When all you can remember from this song is, "You just keep me hangin on," which only returns results for "You Keep Me Hangin On", a completely different song from the 1960s, and not at all what you're looking for. "Okay," you think, "I'll give it a listen and see if the song I'm looking for is some sort of modern cover." Fuckin' nope, not even close. You look through three pages of results, none of which have this song, and you honestly have no idea what you can do to refine a search for the only six words you remember from a song. At this point you begin to question your own sanity, is the song real at all? Did I get the words wrong in some small way that means I may never figure out what song I'm actually looking for? Am I doomed to be nervous and angry until by chance I suddenly figure out what song I've been looking for? You just want to break things, because in no way should it be this difficult to find a catchy song on the internet! WHERE IS IT?! Is there some kind of grand conspiracy to keep you from finding this song? Make you doubt your own mental faculties until you are left a dribbling, emotionally ruined shell of your former self? If you don't figure out what song this is, you aren't eating, you aren't going to bed, you aren't doing anything because now it's personal. You can't find this song, and if you can't find it that means you are wrong, and you know you aren't wrong. It's a horrifying paradox, you cannot give up or else every day that you live having not found that song will be a day lived in agony at the knowledge that you can never prove what you know to be real. Why even continue living? Anyway, I finally found it, by chance after a couple days. The real struggle is figuring out how I'm going to dispose of these bodies.

One of Lou Reed's greatest masterpieces. It is always a Perfect Day listening to Lou.

I played this song on loop while my cat (my baby) was dying in my arms... such a beautiful song. I still get tears now listening to it and remembering our perfect 15 years together