“Anything but Ordinary- Avril Lavigne” Analysis/Interpretation

Avril Lavigne- Anything but Ordinary lyrics

Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh myself to sleep
It's my lullaby
Sometimes I drive so fast
Just to feel the danger
I wanna scream
It makes me feel alive

Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please

To walk within the lines
Would make my life so boring
I want to know that I
Have been to the extreme
So knock me off my feet
Come on now give it to me
Anything to make me feel alive

Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.

Let down your defences
Use no common sense
If you look you will see
that this world is a beautiful
accident turbulent suculent
opulent permanent, no way
I wanna taste it
Don't wanna waste it away

Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh my self to sleep
It's my lullaby

Is it enough?
Is it enough?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please

Is it enough?
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.

SONG ANALYSIS/INTERPRETATION

“Anything but Ordinary” is a song featuring a girl with high dreams and ambitions for becoming a person that is not average. She makes the audience clear by her tone of voice that she does not wish to be like everyone else in society. The speaker’s actions are questioning if it is enough to fulfill life’s necessities. For example, “Is it enough to love? / Is it enough to breathe?” and “Is it enough?/ Is it enough to die?” are repeated throughout the song. This shows that these rhetorical questions are already answered by describing her life deteriorating in the beginning of the song. The beginning of the song starts off by explaining her bad motives and the actions she took when she did not know any better. The speaker was not sure where she stood in life. She explained that life was worth saving “Somebody save my life/ I’d rather be anything but ordinary please”. The significance of this song is to relate her life to an average person and have her transition to a better person than in the past. She becomes to change her life for the benefit of herself which makes her feel satisfied. The speaker was depressed because she needed another person to help her: “Somebody rip my heart out/ And leave me here to bleed”. This song describes the speaker’s life by a flashback of her past which causes her to have realization.

The voice in this song is depressing at first because of her uncertainty of living. The speaker needed to change if she wanted to be anything but ordinary. Ordinary people are average and not important without any excitement or spark in life. She realized she did not want to be ordinary because it was not like her. The structure of this song includes stages of her life. The final stage to her life is to not be ordinary but to be extraordinary: “I wanna taste it/ Don’t wanna waste it away”. She now realizes that life and the world are beautiful and a person needs to cherish their time.