꧁⚜️꧂ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓞𝓻𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓻𝔂 : 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓮 ꧁⚜️꧂

꧁⚜️꧂ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓞𝓻𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓻𝔂 — 𝓡𝓮𝓶𝓲𝔁 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓮 ꧁⚜️꧂ The coffee tasted just the same The morning came at seven The neighbor waved across the street The sky was clear as heaven I knew the road beneath my feet I knew the house behind me I knew the names, I knew the place But something wouldn't find me A clock was running three minutes slow A picture wasn't hanging straight I stood inside a room I knew And felt like I had changed Nothing moved but everything Was slightly out of place Like someone had erased a line And left the rest in place The other side of ordinary Is where I found another me Same sky, same street, same everything Just not the way it used to be I woke up somewhere else Without ever leaving where I was Nothing moved but everything changed And I don't know what that makes us The other side of ordinary Was waiting underneath my feet A woman called me by a name I'd never heard before She looked at me like she had known The person I was for She told me I had lived nearby In a house I couldn't place Then laughed and said, “You always did Have that look upon your face” I found a photograph that night Inside an old cardboard box A room I'd never seen before A woman wearing my eyes She stood beside another girl Who looked a little like me I turned the picture over twice There wasn't anything to read I started wondering how many Versions of a life can be How many roads can disappear And leave a person still standing The other side of ordinary Is where the missing pieces meet One of me remembers leaving One of me remembers the street I was here before I was somewhere else I heard my name from another mouth And recognized it as myself The other side of ordinary Has a door I can't unsee Then I started knowing things Before they came to pass A glass would fall, I'd reach for it Before it left the glass I'd dream a room I'd never seen Then find it the next day I'd hear somebody speak a word Before their lips had formed the shape I walked into an empty house And knew where everything had been Not from a memory I could name But from somewhere underneath my skin There was a version of my life I couldn't quite remember A road I knew I'd never walked A fire from another winter And somewhere in the silence I began to understand The person I had left behind Was never truly gone The other side of ordinary Was never somewhere far from me It was every life I left behind Still looking through my eyes to see The world didn't have to change I only had to cross the line The person I was yesterday Was waiting on the other side The other side of ordinary Is where the stranger knows your name Where the person you were yesterday And who you are become the same The other side of ordinary I woke up and I was still me I came back through the same front door I put my keys down in the hall The room was exactly as it was The picture hadn't moved at all I stood there staring at myself And waited for the world to breathe My reflection smiled Before I did. The other side of ordinary ꧁⚜️𝓢♥𝓟⚜️꧂