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Astrid Falk

Perfect On Paper (You're Not)

Writes hits for other people and kept the best ones; this is what she kept

style

  • scandinavian pop
  • radio pop
  • huge polished chorus
  • tight programmed drums
  • female mezzo
  • bright and confident
  • glossy production
  • hook-driven
  • swedish accent
  • bright

the numbers

bpm
112
key
F major
energy
0.68
dance
0.94
valence
0.66
vocal at
7.4s
length
2:14
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

On paper you're a disaster and a half
No plan, no car, a job that comes and goes
I made a list of reasons not to laugh
And read it out to you and you just closed

I write hits for a living (for a living)
I know how the good ones go
Verse, chorus, someone leaving —
And you don't fit the song at all

Perfect on paper, you are not
And I have never wanted anybody more
Perfect on paper, you are not
And I threw out the list I made before

I've written forty songs about a man
Who did the right things at the proper time
Sold every one of them, they all did fine
And not one line of them was ever mine

This is the first thing I've written that I'm keeping.
It's about somebody with no pension and a broken van.
Do not tell the label. They'll want the other kind.
(FULL PRODUCTION, BIGGEST)

Perfect on paper, you are not
And I have never wanted anybody more
Perfect on paper, you are not
And I threw out the list I made before

(you are not...)