Musical Rudolf Affaire Mayerling
An Ordinary Man
Rudolf
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 traded it all to live and die
An ordinary man
I ask no better than
An ordinary man
