So she opens windows wide Tries to catch the light Her house just grows a little darker No place to hide anywhere in sight Tries rearranging household things Hopes this will bring some change And uncover traces of her life Before the emptiness arrives She moves things around with a sigh Like pawns in a game that can save her from questioning why Then leaves that room And lets another day go by It's just an ordinary sadness That grips her from within There's no pure and simple reason For the darkness rolling in Just an ordinary sadness Preying on her mind Reminding her of something left behind It's just an ordinary life She spends her days sifting through old photos she's found And places them like giant milestones Along the road to where she feels her life is bound She gathers in the joys she owns She spreads them all around Hopes they will trigger laughter Breathing in, breathing out some other life Like the sigh in the wind in the trees Just before rain and flooding her eyes Those foolish tears She weeps for all the years gone by It's just an ordinary sadness That grips her from within There's no pure and simple reason For the darkness rolling in Just an ordinary sadness Preying on her mind Reminding her of something left behind It's just an ordinary life Where did it all get off and leave her To a world she had not planned Drifting out of reach and far from land Just an ordinary sadness Preying on her mind Reminding her of something left behind It's just an ordinary sadness Grips her from within There's no pure and simple reason For the darkness rolling in Just an ordinary sadness Preying on her mind Reminding her of something left behind It's just an ordinary life