I don't wanna make you feel uneasy
But I'd really like to spend the night
I know it's not an easy question
And I don't wanna ask you twice

But the things we do together in the daytime
Always leaves me feeling oh so high
But something's missing in the morning
Something's missing in the night

We're ordinary people with ordinary lives
With the chance to be so beautiful
We could be beautiful, tonight

Well i'm giving up on lucky numbers
I'll never be a millionnaire
There must be something in this spell I'm under
Coz I don't seem to care

Well the moon is getting oh so higher
Making patterns on the wall
And we could be so much closer
with the coming of the dawn

We're ordinary people with ordinary lives
With the chance to be so beautiful
We could be beautiful, tonight

Baby how long how long has it been?
It feels like we have waited for all our lives, waited for tonight

We're ordinary people with ordinary lives
With the chance to be so beautiful
We could be beautiful, tonight

We're ordinary people
Just ordinary people
With ordinary lives


1997년 발매된 앨범 Earthbound의 마지막 트랙. 몇 달 전에 우연히 듣게 되었는데 도저히 잊혀지지 않았다. 안타깝게도 Conner Reeves는 90년대 이후로는 활발한 활동이 없는 것 같다. 앨범을 구하려고 온라인에서도 오프라인에서도 열심히 돌아다녀 보았는데 찾기가 쉽지 않다. 13년은 긴 세월이다. 짙은 감성에서 느껴지는 전율에는 세대 차이가 없지만 뒤쫓기에는 이미 너무 많이 잊혀져 버렸다. 라디오에서, TV에서 흘러나오는 Ordinary People을 들으며 가만히 귀를 기울였을 동시대 사람들이 부러워진다.