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 
but still I can't escape the ghost of you 

What is happening to me crazy some would say 
Where is the life that I recognize, gone away 

And 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, runaway 
Left me in the vacuum of my heart 

What is happening to me crazy some will 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 beside the news of holy war and holy need 
Our's is just a little sorrowed talk, just blown away 

And 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 our world, every world