Beth Sherburn: Ordinary World

Beth Sherburn: "Ordinary World" is the debut single by UK singer-songwriter Beth Sherburn, released by Purple Circle Records on 13 January 2013.

About the song
The single is by Beth Sherburn, a department store worker who scooped a £250,000 record deal after a top music producer heard her singing - behind a make-up counter in Debenhams store located at the Merry Hill Centre in Dudley near Birmingham.

Sherburn was singing the Michael Bublé hit "Christmas" to herself in the store, when she caught the attention of music mogul John McLaughlin of Purple Circle Records, behind acts including Busted, Girls Aloud and Take That. Classically trained Sherburn helped John McLaughlin to buy some Chanel Noire fragrance for his wife before he offered her a record deal.

Lyrics
Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue Thought I heard you talking softly I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio Still I can't escape the ghost of you What has happened to it all? Crazy, some'd say Where is the life that I recognize? Gone away But I won't cry for yesterday There's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find And as I try to make my way To the ordinary world I will learn to survive Passion or coincidence Once prompted you to say "Pride will tear us both apart" Well now pride's gone out the window Cross the rooftops, run away Left me in the vacuum of my heart What is happening to me? Crazy, some'd say Where is my friend when I need you most? Gone away But I won't cry for yesterday There's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find And as I try to make my way To the ordinary world I will learn to survive Papers in the roadside Tell of suffering and greed Here today, forgot tomorrow Ooh, here besides the news Of holy war and holy need Ours is just a little sorrowed talk And I don't cry for yesterday There's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find And as I try to make my way To the ordinary world I will learn to survive Every one is my world, I will learn to survive Any one is my world, I will learn to survive Any one is my world Every one is my world