This Lyric is: #069

My lyric entry for the 2002 Best Lyrics Award:

ORDINARY THINGS

Verse I
Old Mrs. Mayfield, sweepin’ up the floor
Polishes the name plates on the office doors
Sometimes she wonders if she could have been more
She dusts off the desktops and straightens the chairs
She empties the trash, and mops down the stairs
It’s a living she says, to nobody there

Chorus
That could be you
That could be me
We overlook those who do what we need
They’ll get their reward when we all fly away on heaven’s wings
Thank God for extraordinary people
Who do ordinary things

Verse II
Josephine Johnson, washes another dish
Waits on hungry customers ‘till the end of her shift
She doesn’t make much money, even counting tips
She wipes down the tables, turns off the lights
Takes the last bus home, in the middle of the night
Then she picks up her baby, and holds him so tight

Chorus
That could be you
That could be me
We overlook those who do what we need
They’ll get their reward when we all fly away on heaven’s wings
Thank God for extraordinary people
Who do ordinary things


Bridge
The man that washes your windows
Lets the sun shine down on you
The boy that delivers your paper
Brings you knowledge and the truth
If they were all gone tomorrow
Who knows what we’d do?

Chorus
That could be you
That could be me
We overlook those who do what we need
They’ll get their reward when we all fly away on heaven’s wings
Thank God for extraordinary people
Who do ordinary things

Tag
Thank God for these ordinary people
Who do extraordinary things

©2002 John Trentes, BMI, NSAI

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[This message has been edited by Brian Austin Whitney (edited 08-31-2002).]

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