“sticking to Lou Reed I’ve always suspected that the often used Perfect Day is about heroin addiction rather than a relationship”
Nope, LR has categorically stated it was just about a day with his GF
“His interpretation, according to Reed himself, is “laughable.” In an interview in 2000, Reed says that, “No. You’re talking to the writer, the person who wrote it. No that’s not true [that the song is about heroin use]. I don’t object to that, particularly…whatever you think is perfect. But this guy’s vision of a perfect day was the girl, sangria in the park, and then you go home; a perfect day, real simple. I meant just what I said.”