Story Behind The Song

I knew my wife would be my wife when I didn't write her sappy love songs like others. Instead, my songs became more realistic and less romanticized. This was the first one.

Song Description

This is a song describing the initial emotions of a new relationship, where each person is fully impressed with the other and there's not a negative aspect to their personalities. It's the border between that feeling and the one where she realizes he's not quite as admirable as he's been imagined, and the hope that her impression doesn't fall too far!

Lyrics

So you?ve got me on a throne, like the high and mighty.
You see me above the stars in the sky.
Did you never believe that you deserve someone like me?
I am only someone special in your eyes.

You said I?m divine, or at least angelic.
But God and I say that I?m not quite that close.
A thousand compliments that you feel safe and so content.
But it?s nothing special; it?s just the way love goes.

I?m praying you will never see that I am just an ordinary man.
All the things you find in me, but I am just an ordinary man.
You can?t see I?m only human. I can?t see how you?d misunderstand.
I will keep your fantasy that I am not an ordinary man.

You never see the faults I have as failures.
You never seem to think I might be wrong.
You?re much too kind. I see that love?s now made you blind.
You can?t see I?ve never been that strong.

I?m praying you will never see that I am just an ordinary man.
All the things you find in me, but I am just an ordinary man.
You can?t see I?m only human. I can?t see how you?d misunderstand.
I will keep your fantasy that I am not an ordinary man.

All your visions tied to first impressions
Make it hard to keep this image of me
Up to where you say that I should stand.

I?m praying you will never see that I am just an ordinary man.
All the things you find in me, but I am just an ordinary man.
You can?t see I?m only human. I can?t see how you?d misunderstand.
I will keep your fantasy that I am not an ordinary man.