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 is happening to it all?

Crazy some 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 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 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

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed

Feared today forgot tomorrow

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

Any world is my world

I will learn to survive

Every world is my world

I will learn to survive