Perfect Blue Buildings

Perfect Blue Buildings

"The verses are about how horrifyingly gray and mundane and pointless life in general can be. Nothing catastrophic. Little horrors. Envy of other people. Deep need that is unsatisfied. Boredom. And so the chorus is about how seductive coma-visions are: these dreams of placidity, colors, shapes that are so clean. But the peace is a trap to the person in the song; he doesn't want to fall prey to the visions." - Adam Duritz

Just down the street from your hotel, baby
I stay at home with my disease
And ain’t this position familiar, darling
Well, all monkeys do what they see

Help me stay awake, I’m falling..

Down on Virginia La Loma
Where I got friends who’ll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need

So help me stay awake, I’m falling..

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
I try to keep myself away from me

It’s 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
And it doesn’t get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless

Help me stay awake, I’m falling..

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
Try to keep myself away from myself and me

I got bones beneath my skin, and mister..
There’s a skeleton in every man’s house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There’s a dead man trying to get out

So please, help me stay awake, I’m falling..

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple seas
I wanna get me a little oblivion, baby
Try to keep myself away from me

Perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
I wonna get me a little oblivion, baby
Try to keep myself away from myself and me

In perfect blue buildings
I can’t keep myself away from me

In perfect blue buildings
How am I gonna keep myself away?
How am I gonna keep myself away from me?
Keep myself away
How am I gonna keep myself away from me?

(words & music by Adam Duritz)
(c) 1993 EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Jones Falls Music BMI