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Artist: AJR
Canonical path: /ajr/ordinaryish-people
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Ordinaryish People
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Ordinaryish People
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Your happy friends
Call you depressing
'Cause you wonder why we’re all alive
Your downer friends
Think you’re too happy, too happy
'Cause you still celebrate sometimes
Your hippie friends
Call you a sellout
'Cause you buckle down and get a job
You still get high
But you’re no hippie, no hippie
But all your work friends
Say you are
I guess the last time you had any fun
Was way back when you weren’t anyone
So goodbye Ordinaryish People
We had quite the run didn’t we though
But you gotta be somebody sometime
I don’t wanna pack up and leave though
When you’re nobody then nobody minds
Your pretty friends
They call you ugly
Your ugly friends
They call you vain
No you’re not stupid
You’re just special
Well that’s what all your
Smart friends say
I guess the last time you had any fun
Was way back when you weren’t anyone
So goodbye Ordinaryish People
We had quite the run didn’t we though
But you gotta be somebody sometime
I don’t wanna pack up and leave though
When you’re nobody then nobody minds
(Attention please)
(Please yell if you’re paying attention)
I don’t wanna pack up and leave though
When you’re nobody then nobody minds
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