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This song is set post-breakup and seems to ruminate on the accusation that the relationship wouldn’t work because the singer is just ordinary. The song unpacks this in several ways, amongst which being that love cannot be ordinary because of how absurd and ethereal it is.
[Verse 1]
Woke up this morning just like every man does
Walked to the bathroom just like every man does
Made my bed just like everyone must
Nursed my head just like everyone must
Spent the day playing Nina Simone
Reorganized every record I own
I see my friends, we drank beer in a can
Half-drunk they smile, it'll be alright, man
[Pre-Chorus]
Just like a king who's losing his worth
I'm like a snob who's falling to earth
Everyone thinks that I'm staying the same
Are they secretly happy that I am in pain?
[Chorus]
So you say it's ordinary love
That's impossible to do
No such thing as ordinary, love
I was ordinary just to you
[Verse 2]
Does it mean that I'm a regular man
Not as special as I think that I am?
As for you, all that I want to know
Did you stay up as I tumbled so low?
[Pre-Chorus]
Just like a king who's losing his worth
I'm like the sun that's fallen to Earth
Everyone thinks that I'm staying the same
Are they secretly happy that I am in pain?
[Chorus]
So you say it's ordinary love
That's impossible to do
No such thing as ordinary, love
I was ordinary just to you
So you say it's ordinary love
That's impossible to do
No such thing as ordinary, love
I was ordinary just to you
[Outro]
If I was ordinary
And love was ordinary
If I was ordinary
Oh, so very ordinary
If love was ordinary
And I was ordinary
Are you too?
Ordinary Man was written by MIKA & Skyler Stonestreet & Gustave Rudman.
Ordinary Man was produced by Gustave Rudman & MIKA.
MIKA released Ordinary Man on Mon Jun 15 2015.