Content
The song is a mid-tempo backed primarily by piano and acoustic guitar. It begins with a woman named Shelly at the kitchen table with the morning newspaper, when her husband walks in the kitchen, who is upset that he can't take his "ordinary life" anymore.
In the second verse, Shelly is still at the kitchen table, when her son comes up to her with a picture of him with Shelly. When the boy says his prayers, Shelly says that she is thankful for the ordinary life. By the song's bridge, the husband calls her from the airport at midnight, saying that he is "all alone again" and is missing his ordinary life.
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