Ordinary Day

from Spot the Difference by Paul Gill & Sam Belcher

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I started writing this on the bus to work, and got laid off when I got there.
The song just tells the tale of the day.
Another version is on 'On Every Street Corner'.

lyrics

Just an ordinary day
The bus is late and the traffic's moving slow
Just another day
And there are better ways to live
But now I need to work to make ends meet
You've got to swim when the water's deep
But for now it's just an ordinary day

Just an ordinary day
And in the market they prepare to meet the rush
Just another day
For me and for the man
Who with his bag does all the bins in town
He may be out but he isn't down
Its a sunny, Springtime ordinary day

Its an ordinary day
I get to work, I climb the stairs and change my shoes
Just another day
But there are always some you'll win and some you'll...
Sorry, son, to break the news
We can't afford to pay your dues
On this or any ordinary day

Just an ordinary day
There are queues already formed outside the shops
There's a busker getting ready as
I hurry past to catch my bus
As the familiar countryside rolls by
The top deck of the eighty- nine
It almost seems an ordinary day

Just an ordinary day
You are in the garden, working in the sun
Just another day
So you're surprised when I return
And though we shrug and smile and drink our tea
Things won't look so good next week
We'll have a harder kind of ordinary day

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from Spot the Difference, released April 18, 2008
Music & lyrics- P.Gill
Arranged- P. Gill & S. Belcher

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