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Ordinary Bummer

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Ordinary Bummer

Release date: 1st September 1982

From Zombie Birdhouse

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"Ordinary Bummer" is a track by Iggy Pop, from the album Zombie Birdhouse, released 1st September 1982. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Iggy Pop.

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Lyrics

Ordinary Bummer

[Verse]

Lovely games of yesterday

Have left me with my soul to pay

Simplicity flies out the door

When people lose their warmth

[Chorus]

That's a very ordinary bummer

I'll hold out for summer days

Stand and laugh and run

With a quiet movie of mine

[Verse]

I saw a girl with eyes like fire

I had to look away

She was swearing like a sailor

And demanding her own way

[Chorus]

That was when I knew I had to love her

I opened up my sad old eyes

And let the feelings run

With a quiet beauty of mine

[Verse]

Maybe sometimes we do bad things

And then other times, we do good

And sometimes from something very bad

Comes something very good

With a quiet beauty of mine

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Track details

From Zombie Birdhouse

1982

Album

Zombie Birdhouse

Release year

1982

—Life of Work
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—Pain and Suffering
—The Ballad of Cookie McBride
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