Ordinary Designs

So you've come back to recover The car keys enlaced in your lover's apartment Feeling so close but the evening's engrossed you While stars play Without any reason to shine Or there must be competing designs Or plans that you made but they're never the same And then all the while she is treating you So kindly defeating you there Up on the stair But no one's there So retrain your mind to rely On things you've already defied But we're all divine Ordinary designs Old men playing their bocce ball On the steps of the city hall And talking In low lamentations of things that disgraced us And all day these ladies in waiting They pray for a change in the nation They're saying That morning will bring everything that we need And then all the while she is treating you So kindly defeating you there Up on the stair But no one's there So retrain your mind to rely On things you've already defied We're all divine Ordinary designs The rain was cascading but soon it would mention It came at you crowing with best of intentions The lessons you learned from divine intervention The perilous ghosts of the present convention The rain was cascading but soon it would mention It came at you crowing with best of intentions The lessons you learned from divine intervention The perilous ghosts of the present convention