[Verse 1]
It don't matter that I know
Just how you like your morning coffee
It don't matter that I know
Which way you lay your head at night
It don't matter that the whole damn world
Is sometimes out to get me
It's just nice to spend an evening
Here with someone that I like
[Verse 2]
I spent so much time stuck in between
What I've got and what I need
I know you know just what I mean
You'd do the same thing too
Then off you go all by yourself
And sit and sulk and sometimes melt
Into the hand you've been dealt
There's nothing else to do
[Chorus]
Meet me in the parking lot
Just off the highway, there's a spot
Where I will be waiting for you
And maybe we could find somewhere
To sit and talk, clear the air
Like ordinary people do
[Verse 3]
There's something might strange about
The way that people run around
Searching, scrounging 'til they found
Something they can hold dear
Then they finally realize
It was right before their eyes
They let it drain until it dried
And then it disappeared
[Chorus]
Meet me in the parking lot
Just off the highway, there's a spot
Where I will be waiting for you
And maybe we could find somewhere
To sit and talk, clear the air
Like ordinary people do
[Verse 4]
It don't matter that I notice
How you always seem half-empty
And it don't matter how I know
That you get lonely late at night
Or that I always think of you
And hope you don't forget me
'Cause it's nice to spend time now and then
With someone that I like
Well it's nice to spend time now and then
With someone that I like
Ordinary People was written by Jamie Lin Wilson.
[“Ordinary People”] is one of those songs that I sat down and just wrote all in one–actually I wrote it in the parking lot of Kohl’s in New Braunfels on a paper towel! … I’m really proud of this song.
–Jamie Lin Wilson, to Texas Music Scene