Songwriter: Paula Cole
Producer: Kevin Killen
[Verse 1]
I nearly died I suicided softly
I saw her shadow through the cafe window
I watched you lean across the table
I watched you whisper in her ear
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe
[Verse 2]
She looks like me but a bit prettier
She's a skater and a ballet dancer
I saw her on your motorcycle
In the seat I thought was meant for me
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe
And I am so ordinary
[Verse 3]
And when your mother came to Boston you disappeared
And then I saw you three together
I guess she makes the best impression
With her charming femininity...
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe
And I am so ordinary
And I am so ordinary
[Bridge]
Oh but I am the one you will call when alone
And I am the one who will give when she's gone
And so I give
So I give
[Verse 4]
I tell myself that love is truly giving
Somehow I justify this
Hoping you will understand me
Hoping you will love me back
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And she is your Queen Cleopatra
And I'm just your morning after
And she is your Star Spangled Banner
And I am just Frère Jacques
And you can lose me if you want to
[Outro]
And I am so ordinary
I nearly died I suicided softly
I saw her shadow through the cafe window
I watched you lean across the table
I watched you whisper in her ear
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe
[Verse 2]
She looks like me but a bit prettier
She's a skater and a ballet dancer
I saw her on your motorcycle
In the seat I thought was meant for me
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe
And I am so ordinary
[Verse 3]
And when your mother came to Boston you disappeared
And then I saw you three together
I guess she makes the best impression
With her charming femininity...
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe
And I am so ordinary
And I am so ordinary
[Bridge]
Oh but I am the one you will call when alone
And I am the one who will give when she's gone
And so I give
So I give
[Verse 4]
I tell myself that love is truly giving
Somehow I justify this
Hoping you will understand me
Hoping you will love me back
[Chorus]
And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And she is your Queen Cleopatra
And I'm just your morning after
And she is your Star Spangled Banner
And I am just Frère Jacques
And you can lose me if you want to
[Outro]
And I am so ordinary
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Harbinger (1994)
- Greatest Hits: Postcards From East Oceanside (2006)
Paula Cole popular songs
- I Don’t Want to Wait
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
- I Am So Ordinary
- Lovelight
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (edit)
- God Bless The Child
- Me - remastered
- Hush, hush, hush. - remastered
- Carmen
- Mississippi
- Why Don’t You Go?
- Garden of Eden
- Be Somebody
- Lonelytown
- I Wanna Kiss You
- The Ladder
- Amen
- P.R.E.N.U.P.
- God Is Watching
- Me
- 14
- Throwing Stones
- Eloise
- Oh John