PERFECT ONLINE

Three seconds
That's all it takes
A little light
And we become somebody else

You straighten out your jacket
I tuck my hair behind my ear
We know the little ritual
We've done it for another year

You say something underneath your breath
I laugh before I even hear it
There's something almost beautiful
About the way we disappear in it

A hundred little hearts arrive
Before we've even left the place
Strangers telling us we're lucky
Like they know us from a frame

They see the version we designed
The easy kind
The effortless kind
They never ask what happens
When the screen goes white

Perfect online
We give them exactly what they came to find
A little romance
A little paradise
Nothing too real
Nothing out of line

Perfect online
We make a little fiction feel alive
Everybody knows us
Nobody knows why
We keep coming back
To the same disguise

You choose the song for the moment
I choose the words for the caption
We turn an ordinary afternoon
Into somebody else's fantasy

You tell me: This one feels right
I don't ask what that means anymore
Funny how we can spend an hour
Making one second worth keeping

You know how to stand beside me
Without asking how I've been
I know when to play along
We've both become good at this

They see the version we designed
The easy kind
The effortless kind
They never ask what happens
When the screen goes white

Perfect online
We give them exactly what they came to find
A little romance
A little paradise
Nothing too real
Nothing out of line

Perfect online
We make a little fiction feel alive
Everybody knows us
Nobody knows why
We keep coming back
To the same disguise

Maybe I don't miss you
Maybe I miss the illusion
The girl beside you
The one everybody loved
She had your attention
She had your future
I wonder where she went
Because I don't think
She's me anymore

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We made it look so easy from the outside
No one could tell
Where the acting began
Or where we lost the plot

Perfect online
Still getting everything right
We give them the ending
They already decided

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And somewhere underneath it
I can't remember
When we stopped being real

Three seconds
That's all it takes
And we're perfect again