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Peter Hook & The Light perform 'The Perfect Kiss' - November 2020.
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Peter Hook and The Light
Peter Hook and The Light
Performer
Peter Hook
Peter Hook
Bass Guitar
David Potts
David Potts
Guitar
Jack Bates
Jack Bates
Bass Guitar
Paul Kehoe
Paul Kehoe
Drums
Martin Rebelski
Martin Rebelski
Keyboards
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner
Songwriter
Gillian Gilbert
Gillian Gilbert
Songwriter
Peter Hook
Peter Hook
Songwriter
Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Will Shapland
Will Shapland
Producer

Lyrics

I stood there beside myself,
Thinking hard about the weather
Then came by a friend of mine
Suggested we go out together
Then I knew it from the start:
This friend of mine would fall apart
Pretending not to see his gun,
I said "let's go out and have some fun"
I know, you know, you believe in a land of love
I know, you know, we believe in a land of love
I have always thought about
Staying here and going out
Tonight I should have stayed at home,
Playing with my pleasure zone
He has always been so strange,
I'd often thought he was deranged
Pretending not to see his gun,
I said "let's go out and have some fun"
I know, you know, we believe in a land of love
I know, you know, we believe in a land of love
When you are alone at night
You search yourself for all the things
That you believe are right
If you give it all away
You throw away your only chance to be here today
Then a fight breaks out on your street
You lose another broken heart in a land of meat
My friend, he took his final breath
Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death
Written by: Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris

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