"A Perfect Day Elise" is a song by English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey.

Written solely by Harvey, the song was released as the lead single from her fourth studio album, Is This Desire?

[3][4][5] An accompanying music video for the song, directed by Harvey's frequent collaborator Maria Mochnacz, was released in 1998.

[7][8] According to the authors of Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music, Lori Burns and Melisse Lafrance, Harvey's vocals are recorded "with the effect that she is enclosed, while her voice is also layered with an octave doubling.

"[8] On his review for Is This Desire?, James Oldham of NME wrote that the song "will provide you with some idea of what's to come, but even its rumbling momentum and overloaded percussion is no preparation for the brutality of some of the material here.