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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 greed
Feared today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
(Just blown away)
And I don't
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.
Every world, is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world, is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world, is my world
Every world is my world
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 greed
Feared today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
(Just blown away)
And I don't
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.
Every world, is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world, is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world, is my world
Every world is my world
Lyrics submitted by Boonechic_21
Track duration: 04:20
"Ordinary World" as written by Ildiko Basa, Mattias Voss, Ildiko Basa, Mattias Voss
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., EMI Music Publishing
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3 days before I was supposed to get married, it all blew up.
All my fault, I screwed up bad.
This song was just coming out at the time, and I saw the video.. it forever became the anthem of this screwed up time in my life in upstate new york. I remember being in a hotel room, waiting for my new apartment to be ready, and this video came on. It was the first time I really listened to the words.
I lost the person I love and my best friend as well, because I did something so amazingly wrong. I knew I screwed up, I knew I would never see her again, and I knew that some how I had to learn from this huge mistake, move on, and be a better person after learning this lesson. I had to find my "Ordinary World" so to speak.
Well, I moved on, found my place in the world, got married, and lived happily ever after, she did as well. Ours truly was just a little sorrow, but man did it hurt.
I guess we all live and learn, it was really hard to hear these lyrics at that time.
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."
Each an everytime i hear this song it reminds me of the stuggle to survive this life.
Been living on the darkside of live, the wrong side of the line, where using drugs was normal & the normal rules of society don't count. After losing some dear friends, i realized i wasn't gonna last for long if i would keep up that way of living.
So i made the step over to find an normal life in the ordinary world, knowing i had to start learning all over, to survive the ordinary world, wich is, in some ways, just as hard. But the memories of that other life stil haunts me, and i can't forget.
My favorite line= "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, runaway. Left me in the vacuum of my heart...."
Altho the whole song is amazing<3
"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."
It fits the juxtaposition of Morty and XXXX (Craig) perfectly. Morty, confronted with the man who denied him 10 years of his life, carried the sentiment of these lines for a decade until his release from prison. Whereupon he rejoined the underworld. This violent, illegal and brutal existence is his ordinary world.
XXXX, on the other hand, finds himself now trapped in the underworld and his sole desire throughout the film is to escape it. To return to what we identify as the the 'ordinary world'.
Both men have seen the same journey but from opposite ends of the path. Morty has completed his, but XXXX has just begun. This is why their fates are so intertwined.
The mortality of their plight is brought home via the jump cuts of the execution of the protagonists to their dilemna.
God I'm drunk...