Ordinary World

"Ordinary World" is the 23rd single by Duran Duran, and the first single from The Wedding Album. It was released in December 1992 in the United States and January 1993 in the United Kingdom, reaching the top ten in both countries.

By the early 90s, Duran Duran's once-Beatlesque popularity had faded. Their album Liberty had proved a commercial failure, its two singles failing to make a significant showing on British or American charts.

It wasn't until Capitol leaked "Ordinary World" to a radio station in Florida in the autumn of 1992 that it looked like Duran Duran mania might yet hit again. The single proved so popular that Capitol had to push the US release date up, ultimately releasing it in December. In the UK, the original January release date stood. The song can be credited as introducing Duran Duran to a new generation of fans.

B-side: "My Antarctica", others
Released: December, 1992 (US) January 1993 (UK)
Format: 7", CD5
Recorded: Privacy, London
Genre: Rock, Power Ballad
Length: 5:39
Label: EMI - DD 16
Writer(s): Duran Duran
Producer: Duran Duran with John Jones

Came in from a rainy thursday on the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly.

I turned on the lights, the tv and the radio
Still I cant escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy, somed say,
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away...

But I wont cry for yesterday, theres an ordinary world,
Somehow I have to find.

And as I try to make my way, to the ordinary world...
I will learn to survive.

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say
Pride will tear us both apart

Well now prides gone out the window cross the rooftops, run away,
Left me in the vacuum of my heart.

What is happening to me?
Crazy, somed say,
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away...

(chorus)

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow

Ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

(just blown away...)

And I dont... (chorus)

Every world, is my world... (I will learn to survive)
Any world, is my world ... (I will learn to survive)

Any world, is my world...
Every world is my world...