Ordinary Story Lyrics

Every morning the old man walks by

In his hands he holds the paper and his little wife

They'd been together for a long, long time

It's been years of love and bickering and Sunday nights

But they're getting older and he knows inside

But he's not ready to let her go so he holds on tight

I watch them both take one step at a time

Maybe some day I will get it, oh

Ordinary story just like the ones we're told

All these foreign faces come and go

Need someone to hold me as we're growing old

All I ever wanted was a lover in this world

Ordinary story, ordinary story, ordinary story

Just like the ones we're told

See my father swears I'm six foot three

When I come home for the holidays he still measures me

When you're a star don't forget your old man

Don't you know me and your mother were your very first fans

Now how bout that? Does it make you laugh?

Does it make you cry? Does it make it hard to sleep?

Don't you know? Nothing ever lasts

Put it in the past let it if it's meant to be, oh

Open your eyes my love

Won't you just smile my dear

Look to the sky, the stars

We're living in ecstasy

Ordinary story just like the ones we're told

All these foreign faces come and go

Need someone to hold me as we're growing old

All I ever wanted was a lover in this world

See my mama she's so damn strong

Wish the world would know the feeling of my head in her arms

So oh Lord don't you take her from me

Can't imagine what would happen to this family

And these days I don't know who I am

Once a young simple boy now a complicated man

I know someday what I will be

Every ordinary story ends eventually