[Lyric] An Ordinary Man (Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden)

Perhaps another time
Perhaps a different place
There'd be a different dream
For me to chase

An ordinary house
An ordinary town
A simple life
Beyond Vienna's crown

A quiet place to go
At the end of the day;
A quiet place to go
And keep the world at bay

If I could fly away
If I could simply disappear
If I could slip the chains of life
Yet somehow keep her near

Is there another world where
Love is blind enough to see
That even princes should be free?
I ask no better than
An ordinary man
Do we wake to a different dream
Beyond the silence
Or recreate our star-crossed fate
Again and again?

And so I play the fool
Until the passion in me stirs
I tell myself this life is mine
Although it's really hers

And though I would be king
And never questioned how or why
I'd traded it all
To live and die
An ordinary man

I ask no better than
An ordinary man