Simon Le Bon and Luciano Pavarotti, Ordinary World

[littlemissmartypants]

Original/Official Video

Ordinary World
Duran Duran

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, some'd say
Where is the life that I recognise? (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 pride's gone out the window
'Cross the rooftops, run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd 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

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ah-ah-ah
Gone away
Oh-oh

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Fear today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh-ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

Just blowing away

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 my world)
(Every world)

Written by: Jonathan Reuven Rotem, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Warren Cuccurullo, Simon John Charles Le Bon, Kisean Paul Anderson, Marty James, Michael Brennan Williams

Album: Duran Duran
Released: 1993

Although I know that the song is about the loss of a friend, David Miles, I can't help but hear the sound of the loss of a world and way of life. It's not unlike what we are experiencing now.

RESIST!!
❤️pants

[DuranDuranDUme]

1. Thank you!

Awesome

[littlemissmartypants]

2. My pleasure, DuranDuranDUme. ❤️