| I want to tell you something | 
| It’s not a secret or anything | 
| You’re not alone in being alone | 
| At the end of a perfect day | 
| And if you leave all your dependents | 
| Then they will gain their independence | 
| Don’t make a martyr of yourself | 
| It’s just the end of a perfect day | 
| And it’s never how it seems | 
| The rain may fall on the best laid schemes | 
| But in a written testimonial I’d say | 
| I never really knew you anyway | 
| I want to tell you something | 
| Now don’t go crazy or anything | 
| Just want to tell you that it’s over | 
| It’s the end of a perfect day | 
| Do you want sign language? | 
| Don’t want a knuckle sandwich! | 
| Now you can love or you can hate it’s just | 
| The end of a perfect day | 
| You can’t get inside someone | 
| So don’t ask me if we’re close | 
| I really couldn’t tell you | 
| But I know you wouldn’t really listen anyway | 
| It’s a pain you have to bear | 
| And it’s always going to be there | 
| But if you disappeared tomorrow | 
| Then the world would carry on without you anyway | 
| Mind over matter it seems | 
| Can stop you falling apart at the seams | 
| It’s a matter of honour with me | 
| I could write out a hundred times | 
| Put my hand on my heart and say | 
| That I don’t want to lie | 
| Don’t want to lie | 
| Don’t want to lie | 
| About the way it is | 
| I want to tell you something | 
| Don’t act surprised now or anything | 
| Now you can revel in yourself 'cause | 
| It’s just the end of a perfect day | 
| No it’s not a pretty world out there | 
| With people dying of their own despair | 
| But in a written testimonial you’d say | 
| You never really knew them anyway | 
| I’ll never satisfy you | 
| I’ll never even try to | 
| I really couldn’t tell, it just depends what you remember | 
| At the end of a perfect day |