THE ORDINARY DAYS [Verse 1] There’s a light left on in the kitchen, Shoes kicked off beside the door. Someone shouting from the hallway, Someone asking me for more. Tea goes cold, the washing piles up, There’s a bag I forgot to pack. Funny how the life that wears you out Is the life you’d want right back. [Pre-Chorus] I used to think the big things mattered most, Now I know better than that. [Chorus] Give me the ordinary days, The noise, the mess, the running late. Give me dinner at the table, Give me stories at the end of day. Give me nothing worth a photograph, Just the moments that quietly stay. I spent years looking for something more, Now I’d choose the ordinary days. [Verse 2] A muddy coat across the banister, A half-done job out in the rain. A Saturday with nowhere special, Just doing all the same old things. A laugh from somewhere down the landing, A hand reaching over in the night. The kind of things you barely notice Till you nearly lose the right. [Pre-Chorus] I used to think I needed more to show, Now I know what I’d hold onto. [Chorus] Give me the ordinary days, The noise, the mess, the running late. Give me dinner at the table, Give me stories at the end of day. Give me nothing worth a photograph, Just the moments that quietly stay. I spent years looking for something more, Now I’d choose the ordinary days. [Bridge] One day the hallway will be quieter, Those shoes won’t be there on the floor. The rooms will stay a little cleaner, And I’ll miss what I complained about before. So I’m trying not to rush it, Trying not to wish it all away. There’ll be time enough for silence, Just not today. [Final Chorus] Give me the ordinary days, The noise, the mess, the running late. Give me everyone under one roof, Give me one more chance to stay. Give me nothing worth a photograph, Just the moments I can’t replace. I spent years looking for something more, Now I know what matters anyway. Yeah, if I get to choose, Give me the ordinary days. [Outro] The light left on. The shoes by the door. The life I thought was ordinary— I don’t call it that anymore.
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