This is by far the oldest song on ‘Time’, as we wrote it about 8 or 9 years ago, as an acoustic song for a compilation, but in the end it never appeared on the compilation. We left the song for a couple of years, and then started playing it live, in a full band version. Ever since it’s been a song w...
[Verse 1]
Focus on the rain
Dripping through every hole
Every night's the same
God has left this place
Left us on his way out
Risen questions stay
[Chorus]
And it hopelessly went wrong
This tiresome masquerade
A perfect family day
Tragically displayed
[Verse 2]
Cover up these stains
Keeping up appearances
Jaded smiles remain
Watching fate take place
We're sulking and we're stumbling through
Grey and spiteful days
[Chorus]
And it hopelessly went wrong
This tiresome masquerade
A perfect family day
Tragically displayed
Perfect Family Day was written by Casper Starreveld & Eloi Youssef & Jan Haker & Niles Vandenberg.
Perfect Family Day was produced by Kensington & Garth Richardson.
Kensington released Perfect Family Day on Fri Nov 15 2019.
It’s hard to go back to the exact inspiration for this song when it was written, but we never changed the lyrics, cause even now they’re still making perfect sense. The song evolved musically by playing it live the past years, and we tried to stay pretty close to the live version.
It was the easiest song to record because we already knew exactly what to play, haha, we had quite some practice. It was very exciting to finally have a studio recording of this song, and Garth and Andy were the perfect team to record and mix it with.