Song Lyrics #24 Ordinary World

 

This week I'm looking at Ordinary World by Duran Duran. This is such a melancholy song, it never fails to hit me right in the feels. And it's amazing to me that this came out in 93? I thought it was a much more recent song, for some reason. Anyway as much as I love DD's stuff from the 80's (surf rock, or maybe yacht rock?) this is a powerful song.

So what do you think?   

Lyrics

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'd 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 to find

And as 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'd 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 as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive 

Papers in the roadside 

Tell of suffering and grief

Fear today, forgot tomorrow 

Ooh, here besides the news

Of holy war and holy need

Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find 

And as I try to make my way 

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive 

Every one 

Is my world (I will learn to survive)

Any one 

Is my world (I will learn to survive)

Any one

Is my world

Every one 

Is my world