"Ordinary World"

From what I hear, MSG was the place to be last night for the Duran Duran show. I've always loved their work. They have a distinctive sound and some great lyrics. One of my favorite songs from them is "Ordinary World." I think it's a song we can all relate to. It's about having to find your life after a romance or a break-up. We sometimes get so caught up in a routine of seeing someone that we forget what life was like before you and that person met. It's only after the relationship ends that you try to find your way. The memories of that person seem to follow you and haunt you no matter what you do or where you are. But somehow, you have to find a way to get back to a life that you knew before them:

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 can't escape the ghost of you.

What is happening to it all?
Crazy some say-
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away.

How many times has even our own home become different after you break up with someone? You remember all the times you shared with them there and your own home seems to become unrecognizable without them. You are haunted by these memories and it takes so long to get back to some sense of normalcy.

But I won't cry for yesterday.
There's 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 pride's gone out the window, cross the rooftops, runaway.
Left me in the vacuum of my heart.

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

Sure, we always learn to survive and move on, but it's remembering how to that's the struggle. You just have to build on each day and get over the hurdles and the memories.

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed,
Feared today; forgot tomorrow.
Here beside the news of holy war and holy need,
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk-
Blown away.

Just blowing away.

That's my favorite verse of the song, it's so true. In the entire scheme of the universe you have to look at how small your struggle is compared to what's going on around you. Of course, within your own world things can seem horrible and difficult to heal from. But, if you look at the full scope of the struggles in the world, something like a break-up is just a blip on the screen, and it will pass.