Released: January 7, 1993
Songwriter: John Taylor Duran Duran Nick Rhodes Simon Le Bon
Producer: John Taylor John Jones Duran Duran Nick Rhodes Simon Le Bon
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
Still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy someone say
Where is the life that I recognize?
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
Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say:
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now prides gone out the window
Cross the rooftops, run away
Left me in the vacuum of my Heart
What is happening to me?
Crazy someone 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
(Just blown away)
Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Fear today, forgot tomorrow
Ohh, here beside the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
And I don'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
Thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy someone say
Where is the life that I recognize?
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
Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say:
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now prides gone out the window
Cross the rooftops, run away
Left me in the vacuum of my Heart
What is happening to me?
Crazy someone 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
(Just blown away)
Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Fear today, forgot tomorrow
Ohh, here beside the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
And I don'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
more tracks from the album
The Singles 1986-1995
- Come Undone [Edit]
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
- Skin Trade (Parisian Mix)
- Ordinary World [Single Version]
- Water Babies
- Yo Bad Azizi
- Skin Trade [Radio Cut]
- Ordinary World (Acoustic version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Dub Sound Of A Powerful Mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- Decadance
- Meet El Presidente (7" Remix)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (Rock mix)
- Hungry Like the Wolf [130 B.P.M. Version]
- Notorious (Live)
- Come Undone (12" mix - Comin’ Together)
- Throb
- All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)
- I Don’t Want Your Love (Big Mix)
- Palomino (Edit)
- God (London)
- Skin Trade (Stretch Mix)
- Notorious (Extended Mix)
- Notorious [45 Mix]
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- The Krush Brothers LSD Edit
- All She Wants Is [45 Mix]
- Vertigo (Do the Demolition)
- My Antarctica
- All Along The Water
- Serious
- Violence Of Summer (Love’s Taking Over)
- Skin Trade
- Do You Believe in Shame?
- Come Undone
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Meet El Presidente
- Winter Marches On
- I Don’t Want Your Love
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Power Mix)
- Perfect Day (acoustic version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Story mix)
- The Reflex (7'’ version)
- Meet el Presidente (Meet el Beat)
- Too Much Information
- We Need You
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- Burning The Ground
- Perfect Day
- White Lines
- A View to a Kill
From the albums
- Ordinary World (Single Promo) (1993)
- The Wedding Album (1993)
- The Singles 1986-1995 (2004)
Duran Duran popular songs
- Ordinary World
- Come Undone
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Rio
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- The Reflex
- The Chauffeur
- Notorious
- A View to a Kill
- The Wild Boys
- New Moon on Monday
- Planet Earth
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Union of the Snake
- New Religion
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- Faster Than Light
- Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version)
- American Science (Meltdown Dub)
- Girls on Film [Night Version]
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made