Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Superman by Five For Fighting


Some songs just hit you... This song now ranks up with "Singing for my Life" by Bob Bennett as one of the greatest songs ever written. Maybe I feel like this sometimes and that's why it touched me so deeply. Sorry if that sounds self absorbed. But I have moments of feeling like this. And at those moments I fall to my knees.

I don't recommend much else from this guy. But this is definitely a good song.

SUPERMAN from the album
AMERICAN TOWN

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird...I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see

It may sound absurd...but don't be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won't you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me

Up, up and away...away from me
It's all right...you can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy...or anything...

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me
Inside me
Yeah, inside me
Inside of me

I'm only a man
In a funny red sheet
I'm only a man
Looking for a dream

I'm only a man
In a funny red sheet
And it's not easy, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm...

It's not easy to be me