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Vanessa Carlton – Ordinary Day (3:59)

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Originally titled Ordinary Days, this song first appeared on Vanessa Carlton’s self-titled demo tape from 1999.

“Ordinary Day” is a song written and performed by Vanessa Carlton from her album Be Not Nobody. The single peaked at number thirty on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Carlton wrote the song when she was 17. It is the first song that Vanessa has ever written in only one sitting.

When Carlton performs the song live, she uses some of the original lyrics that she wrote for the song rather than the ones recorded for the album version. On the album, the lyrics at the end of the chorus are “Don’t you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand?” and in the live version Vanessa sings “If we walk now, we will divide and conquer this land”.
Vanessa has stated that she had to change the lyrics for the album version due to the label’s disapproval because of the events of September 11th, 2001.
The trademark piano riff from the song was used in the trailer of the 2007 film Martian Child.

Music Video

The music video to the song is a fairly simplistic one. The video was directed by Marc Klasfeld, the same director who directed the music video for her previous hit single “A Thousand Miles”.
The video starts with Vanessa writing the songs title in a diary. As she starts to sing “just a boy, just an ordinary boy”, a boy appears in the back of her. The video continues with clips of her playing piano in a field, along with various people hugging and kissing each other while she sings the song.
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  • Be Not Nobody
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  • Be Not Nobody (Limited Edition)
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  • Best Of
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  • Ordinary Day
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  • Haohmaru69

    Vanessa Carlton is thee best diva ever !!!

    last month

  • EvilMaleKikyo

    An ordinary day with Vanessa and Shayna Lee

    November 2011

  • Musicluve15

    Beautiful song

    October 2011

  • bianca_lg_xx

    <3

    October 2011

  • dannygrl

    she's really good

    September 2011

  • Jorgelovenyc

    She is just one of the best pianist and pop singer-songwriter we'll ever see!! I fell in love with her music since A Thousand Miles!!

    September 2011

  • andiwooz

    It's so old, but I still love it!

    August 2011

  • Gedankenimpuls

    I totally love this song! Especially the violins in the background (:

    March 2011

  • WMD4NYC

    http://www.last.fm/music/Laura+Butler I am sharing another great female vocalist Laura Butler. Thanks. I am helping Laura get her music out there. Please let us know what you think. - You rock. Walter & Laura

    March 2011

  • camilozzz

    amo esta cancionnnnnnnnnnnnn

    February 2011

  • ily2011

    god her voice is just ahh... and her music lyrics just come from the heart i love it:)

    February 2011

  • nukumms

    she has the voice of meg & dia

    January 2011

  • OPENROAD7

    What a song !! Just beautiful, just like all her songs, her melodies are truly amazing.

    January 2011

  • chellebellez

    so much love for this song :) <3

    November 2010

  • emkato

    amazing

    November 2010

  • JosieEllen

    makes me completly melt....

    October 2010

  • Andromedarise

    Just when I forget how joyous love is, I hear this and I melt inside!

    May 2010

  • that70smilkman

    :D

    April 2010

  • music4u2love

    I love this entire CD.

    April 2010

  • gringolatino

    This song is great it reminds me how wonderful love is.

    March 2010
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