Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16; 1980) is an American soft rock Piano pop singer; songwriter; and pianist best known for the Billboard top five; Grammy-nominated single A Thousand Miles from her debut album; Be Not Nobody which was released April 30; 2002; and certified platinum in the U.S.Carltons second album; Harmonium (released November 9; 2004); debuted at number thirty-three on the U.S. Billboard 200 and had sold 179;000 copies as of February 2006;with the single White Houses; peaking at eighty-six in the U.S. "Ordinary Day" is a song written and performed by Vanessa Carlton from her album Be Not Nobody. The single peaked at number thirty on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Carlton wrote the song when she was 17. It is the only song that Vanessa has ever written in only one sitting.
When Carlton performs the song live, she uses some of the original lyrics that she wrote for the song rather than the ones recorded for the album version. On the album, the lyrics at the end of the chorus are "Don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand?" and in the live version Vanessa sings "If we walk now, we will divide and conquer this.