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Ordinary

by Ewan Jones

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1.
Ordinary 05:10
All I need is you my lover All I need is you my lover Make me yours and want no other All I need is you my lover You're so ordinary, so very ordinary So sad and solitary, infatuated and you're Lamenting fantasies and what is not to be There is no honesty in what you say you feel for me Meeting here by chance (Meeting here by chance) Watching you arrive (Watching you arrive) You take me by the hand (Take me by the hand) Say 'Take a walk outside, (Say, 'Take a walk outside) Inside it's too warm.' (Inside it's too warm.') But in the cold night air (But in the cold night air) You tell me not to fear (I tell you not to fear) I breath the air you breathe (You breath the air I breathe) All I need is you my lover All I need is you my lover Make me yours and want no other All I need is you my lover You're so ordinary, so very ordinary So sad and solitary, infatuated and you're Lamenting fantasies and what is not to be There is no honesty in what you say you feel for me Take our time in turns There's something in our voices Midnight walks reveal We cling to different choices You say 'It's not to be' I crack your riddles breaking me What are you really trying to say? You are a perfect mystery. Meet your eyes across the room The smoke and lights and you're in bloom No space between us and the sky You'll see these secrets born to be denied. You're so ordinary, so very ordinary So sad and solitary, infatuated and you're Lamenting fantasies and what is not to be There is no honesty in what you say you feel for me All I need is you my lover All I need is you my lover Make me yours and want no other All I need is you my lover
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Useless, with no words You are what I told myself I wanted Worthless, with no use This would mean so much more in another time Don't even bother saving me now She's taking me away. Forever bound I'll be. I am walking tall, my head down Faithless, with no hope More than life is worth to fall in love with you Victimless, with no regrets Never expected this to go any other way than down Don't even bother saving me now She's taking me away Forever bound I'll be I am nothing with my head down Down and gone Through and left behind Around and right before I reach the end Down and gone Through and left behind Around and right before I reach the end Tasteless, with no shame, You are leaving without my sympathy. 'That's okay'. You don't want it. Just take these words, they're no damn use to me. Don't even bother saving me now She's taking me away Forever bound I'll be I am nothing with my head down Don't even bother saving me now She's taken me away Forever bound I'll be I am walking tall, my head down Down and gone Through and left behind Around and right before I reach the end Down and gone Through and left behind Around and right before I reach the end Before I reach the end....
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Yea, It's all right for you You've got your friends I'll just sit back a while and pretend Yes, I'm the quiet one And you think you're the chosen one Sorry, you're not Jesus Christ This is what I've learnt about you all It's all right for you You've got your darling friends If all my words are true Then may shame rain down on you Oh. You pulled that out 'your top hat. Now let me be your magic trick, black cat. Keep cursing me with words Someday, one of those names will stick. Yea, it's all right for you You've got your useless friends And if all my words are true Then may shame rain down on you You monster, shame on you I wish you didn't matter But I just think of you And all the pain comes back It's all competitions and contradictions I never want to see you But I never want to leave your side I wish I could believe you But you make it seem like you're a liar And every time I'm near you My skin will burn like I'm on fire Let's run away and you can ruin me Keep good on promises I've got the money if you've got the time Put these brain cells in a jar We're going back in time.
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See My Arms 03:32
Everyone's looking for something When they find it, they only feel let down The truth is, I think I'm addicted To the feeling of getting and growing See my arms held out See my arms laid out The days become long and I'm weary of ambitions that are nothing but vanity Striving for meaning in motion Rest pretty sisters, your sorrows will fade See my arms held out See my arms laid down See my eyes face down See my heart fade out One bright morning when this life is over, I'll fly away To a land of God's celestial shore, I'll fly away I'll fly away, O' glory, I'll fly away When I die, alleluia by and by, I'll fly away
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e a i don't see any point in claiming b e words of another dude's song a b c#m unless they mean everything to me b a or nothing else that's going on and i don't ever think i'll bother walking another man's path unless he got where i'm going and nobody did from where we are f#m b nobody did it like me g# c#m nobody ever did like me chorus e b f#m a I don't journey I've never been anywhere before I can't travel I don't know where I'd go No one’s priority Why should I walk around alone They think I’m missing out f#m a But i'm okay by myself you know there's no poem, I know no lyrics that put it quite how i see and no author or journalist appears to have the angle I need and the everyday nobody’s look at me like I’m the damn freak no b.s. psychic even knows what i mean still they figure their lies and speak nobody did it like me nobody ever did like me I don't journey I've never been anywhere before I can't travel I don't know where I'd go No one’s priority Why should I walk around alone I think I’m missing out But i'm okay by myself you know g# c#m And I love you but you don't like it a b You don't like what i do g# c#m And i love her but she doesn't want it a f#m She mustn't like that i'm not like you e b f#m Or anybody else e b f#m And she's gonna get me killed I don't journey I've never been anywhere before I can't travel I don't know where I'd go I'm no priority Why should I walk around alone They think I’m missing out But i'm okay by myself I don't journey I've never been anywhere before I can't travel I don't know where I'd go No one's priority Why should I walk around alone They think I’m missing out But i'm okay by myself you know
6.
Once 03:26
Once was a lifeline you gave to me Once was all the chance that we get One look was all it took for you to throw it away and Once was all we ever had left Twice there were lies in the evening Fables for moments misspent Covers come clean but the sheets you're between Smell of panic and stale cigarettes Forget / Forget / Forget She's forging a face from regrets Many the words left unspoken My head on your breast leaves you cold Coffee's no cure for the broken and bound and Lust is a thorn for the soul I hid all your letters in April By May I knew you were on fire The words on your tongue like a shot from a gun Are still everything I desire to Forget / Forget / Forget Forget you're not your own person yet Why won't you answer me? You owe me this and I'm still here waiting I'll leave now, but I'm desperate to come back. And to forget.
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Hannah, peace is what you need And time to think that helps you feel yourself Lately you've been talking in your sleep Rumours of a life more ordinary Thursday, a day not often heard In titles, songs and words, but here Blurring, the weeks roll into months The months blend into years. The fear... Talking and talking but never believing that there will be healing must break your sorrowful heart that all came apart and still hasn't forgotten that day. If there was anything I could say know that I'd willingly take all your pain Faith is assurance of things we've not seen but I'm sure you'll see sunshine again. (Your smile has a way that makes me want to change, Your voice moves my soul in ways unexplained. Your eyes see inside me to every small corner, You knew me and loved me before I was born.) Standing on ledges and dreaming of flying there's nothing but concrete below. Put away edges and put away doubts and take hold of the truth that you know. 'It's one of those days where the world would be better if I didn't even exist.' Your eloquent phrases and false self-appraisals - It doesn't get better than this. (Waking and sleeping, I trust you are with me, Behind and before me, a guide and a lamp to me Words that bring comfort, your life sets me free. You are the lover who sings over me.) You are the lover who sings over me You are the lover who sings over me You are the lover who sings over me You are the lover who sings over me
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Summer 03:25
Here we'd stay all summer long Waist high grass and yellow corn Final rest in shade of trees The final touch of a summer breeze Together under watching skies Our paths in two directions lies Autumn comes then winter frost We trust our feelings at a cost Now here we rest on a summer's day And those times still seem far away For now I drink your magic in And make the best for the time being I think of you and when I do I hate to be apart from you When you learn the world is cruel Maybe we could make things new? Snow will freeze and sun will burn Lessons we all have to learn You'll find me in the tall tree's shade Won't stop you if you turn away Time to go so ends the wait Say you take my fears away Words naive and so are we The last time we may ever be I heard you say on a summer's day We'll be free and here we'll lay Seasons pass intentions change But mine will always stay the same Mine will always stay the same.

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released June 1, 2009

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