Cover art for The Ordinary Boys by Morrissey

The Ordinary Boys

Mar. 14, 19881 viewer

The Ordinary Boys Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing
Happy being no one but themselves
Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes
Who think it's very clever to be cruel to you

[Chorus 1]
For you were so different
You stood all alone
And you knew
That it had to be so

[Verse 2]
Avoiding ordinary boys, happy going nowhere
Just around here in their rattling cars
Ordinary girls, never seeing further
Than the cold, small streets that trap them

[Chorus 2]
But you were so different
You had to say no
When those empty fools
Tried to change you and claim you

[Outro]
For the lair of their ordinary world
Where they feel so lucky, so lucky, so lucky
With their lives laid out before them
They are lucky, so lucky, so lucky, so lucky, so

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