An Ordinary Guy

(DUSOLEIL is alone in the street. He turns to the audience and tips his hat, shyly.)

I don't deserve your attention

I'm hardly worthy of mention

I've got a job and a pension

Nothing remarkable, nothing very strange

I go to work on a Monday

And to the park on a Sunday

Never suspecting that one day

My life would suddenly change

I'm just a guy living down the hall

A normal ordinary Joe, that's all

Who'd never dream of walking through a wall

At all

It's all beyond comprehension

Why me? A slave to convention

Without an ounce of pretension

No early reason why anyone should care

You might have walked by me on the stair

And not have noticed that I was there

But now my boundaries have turned to air

I was a monk in a cloister

But now the world is my oyster

If I can walk through the door

Then life's not dull anymore

Now I can wander the world

Why should I squander my life behind closed doors

When I can take a look at yours?

But where on earth would that get me?

It might scare me

It might upset me

Still, life's aquired a dimension

That's quite beyond comprehension

Was this divine intervention?

I won't need these anymore

I wonder what it's all for

What's it for?