Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
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From Rolling Stone:
Learning, the debut album by Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius, was filled with personal dirges, including an eponymous song about smoking weed with a high school educator named Mr. Peterson, who later committed suicide. “It is about a teacher I had in freshman year,” Hadreas...
[Verse 1]
My work came back from class
With notes attached
Of a place and time
Or how my body kept him up at night
[Verse 2]
He let me smoke weed in his truck
If I could convince him I loved him enough
Enough, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough
[Verse 3]
He made me a tape of Joy Division
He told there was a part of him missing
When I was sixteen
He jumped off a building
[Verse 4]
Mister Peterson
I know you were ready to go
I hope there’s room for you up above
Or down below
Mr. Peterson was written by Perfume Genius.
Mr. Peterson was produced by Perfume Genius.
Perfume Genius released Mr. Peterson on Mon Mar 01 2010.