HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS - PERFECT WORLD

PERFECT WORLD

HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS

SONGWRITER: ALEX CALL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SMALL WORLD

LABEL: CHRYSALIS RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1988

 

            Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually achieving 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts.

      Their most successful album, Sports, was released in 1983. The album, along with its videos being featured on MTV, catapulted the group to worldwide fame. Their popularity expanded when the hit song "The Power of Love" was featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future. "The Power of Love" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The 1986 album Fore! produced two further number-one singles, "Stuck With You" and "Jacob's Ladder". The band's other top 10 hits include "Do You Believe in Love", "Heart and Soul", "I Want a New Drug", "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "If This Is It", "Hip to Be Square", "I Know What I Like", "Doing It All for My Baby" and "Perfect World".

Everybody's looking for the perfect world

Where you could have everything your heart desires

The perfect boy will meet the perfect girl

And the perfect love will set the world on fire

 

Well what you gonna do, when one and one makes three

And a vision of the future is impossible to see

Nobody's perfect, not even a perfect fool

If you'll have faith in me

I'll keep faith with you

 

Ain't no livin' in a perfect world

There ain't no perfect world anyway

Ain't no livin' in a perfect world

But we'll keep on dreamin' of livin' in a perfect world

Keep on dreamin' of livin' in a perfect world

 

Everybody's got secrets, now you know that it's true

They talk about me and they'll talk about you

Something happens to the pledges of trust

Down through the years they begin to rust

 

Now here we are amid the tears and the laughter

Still waiting for our happily ever after

We'll keep on dreamin' as long as we can

Try to remember and you'll understand

 

Ain't no livin' in a perfect world

There ain't no perfect world anyway

Ain't no livin' in a perfect world

But we'll keep on dreamin' of livin' in a perfect world

Keep on dreamin' of livin' in a perfect world.