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Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!
Ordinary Life

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Ordinary Life

Release date: 29th November 2013

From Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!

Track 1

3:25

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About This Track

'Ordinary Life' by Simple Plan is a 2013 pop track from 'Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!' that turns a restless commuter routine into a bigger feeling of being trapped. The lyrics move through images of anonymity in a faceless crowd, getting caught in a machine, and getting spit out, before settling on the sensory grind of “tick-tock” and counting the seconds. There is a sense of drag and disorientation, as the narrator searches for something like their soul amid the churn, hoping to break out of the same spot.

"Ordinary Life" is a track by Simple Plan, from the album Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!, released 29th November 2013. The track is 3:25 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Simple Plan.

About the Artist

Simple Plan

Simple Plan

Lyrics

Ordinary Life

It's just another Monday
I'm just another face in a faceless crowd
I'm going down one-way
Caught up in the machine
And I'm spit right out
I'm living in a rat race
I'm looking for my soul in the lost-and-found

I'm sitting in the same spot
Counting every tick-tock
Gotta hit the punch clock
When's it gonna stop-stop?
Another day in black and white

One, two, three, four, five
Another week goes by
I'm half alive
I'm getting sick of faking this
I'm over it
Don't wanna wear no suit and tie
Gotta live before I die
So I'm done, done, done
With this ordinary life

What happened to the someday?
What happened to the dreams of the wide-eyed kid?
Don't tell me that it's too late
Don't tell me that I can't cause you never did

I'm sitting in the same spot
Counting every tick-tock
Gotta hit the punch clock
When's it gonna stop-stop?
Another day in black and white
I gotta quite this ordinary life

One, two, three, four, five
Another week goes by
I'm half alive
I'm getting sick of faking this
I'm over it

Don't wanna wear no suit and tie
Gotta live before I die
So I'm done, done, done
With this ordinary life

I don't wanna wake up
With my best years behind me
I don't wanna wake up
With my best years behind me
I don't wanna wake up
With my best years behind me

I think I better wake up
Before my life's behind me

Whoa

One, two, three, four, five
Another week goes by
I'm half alive
I'm getting sick of faking this
I'm over it

Don't wanna wear no suit and tie
Gotta live before I die
So I'm done, done, done
With this ordinary life

One, two, three, four, five
No more ordinary life

One, two, three, four, five
I gotta wake up, wake up

One, two, three, four, five
No more ordinary life

I'm done, done, done with this ordinary
This whole thing is temporary
Done, done, done with this ordinary life

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Get Your Heart On - The Second Coming!

29th November 2013

Track number

1

Release year

2013

1Ordinary Life
3:25
2The Rest of Us
3:14
3Outta My System
3:25
4Fire In My Heart
3:26

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Chuck Comeau, Pierre Bouvier, Zac Maloy
Writer: Simple Plan, Zac Maloy
Producer: Simple Plan
Drums: Chuck Comeau
Guitar: Jeff Stinco, Sébastien Lefebvre
Vocals: Pierre Bouvier
Additional Engineering: Aaron Rubin, Zac Maloy
Additional Production: Zac Maloy
Background Vocals: David Desrosiers, Sébastien Lefebvre
Bass Guitar: David Desrosiers
Mastering Engineer: Ryan Morey
Mixing Engineer: Frank Joly
Recording Engineer: Frank Joly, Geoff Neal, Nick Brewer, Sébastien Lefebvre

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