Ordinary World

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue

Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio

Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all

Crazy some would say

Where is the life that I recognize?

Gone away, but I won't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

somehow

I have and if I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn

to survive. Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say pride will tear us

both apart. Well now pride's gone out the window,

Cross the rooftops, run away

Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?

Crazy, some would say

Where is my friend when I need you most?

Gone away, but I won't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world somehow I have to find

And if I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed

Fear today, forgot tomorrow

Ooh, here beside the news of holy war and holy need

Ours is just a little sorrow talk

Just blown away

And I don't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

somehow I

have to find

And if I try to make my way to the ordinary world

I will learn

to survive

Here's my world

I will learn to survive

Here's my world

I will learn to