Ordinary Life

Look at the young ones so beautiful it aches

They’ve no idea of the hearts that they will break

Do they remember, what’ll they recall

My fleeting fancies, I loved them all

The lazy mornings, those hazy blackout nights

The streets a playground ours by right

They should have told me, the could’ve said

I’d no idea those days would end

Somebody’s baby

Somebody’d child

Somebody’s mother

Somebody’s wife

Not bound for big things

Fool enough to try

I guess I’m bound

For an ordinary life

The magpies calling, the morning crawls from night

My baby’s crying, it’s half passed five

I drag me feet across the chilly floors

I stub my toes against the door

Her chubby arms well they drape around my neck

Her heavy head, her sticky breath

I love her more than all the oceans deep

Goddam my child, just let me sleep

Somebody’s baby

Somebody’s child

Somebody’s mother

Somebody’s wife

Not bound for big things

Fool enough to try

I guess I’m bound

For an ordinary life

We carve our names, in rocks and walls

They’re gonna crumble, they’re gonna fall

My sweetheart loves me, I laugh more than I cry

I guess I’m lucky for this ordinary life

Somebody’s baby

Somebody’s child

Somebody’s mother

Somebody’s wife

Not bound for big things

Fool enough to try

I guess I’m bound

For an ordinary life