Sarah Talks Back at Music

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’ve been sick. I’m late on books. I haven’t been able to play in my own diner in days. So I find myself in the store, talking back at the music in the ceiling. There was Five For Fighting’s Superman playing and I yelled back "Oh, yeah, try not being faster than a speeding bullet." I know I play with the theme of "superpowers have a price" in the Shifter series, but honest to BOG, at least becoming an animal has a larger downside than being bullet proof.

This song definitely wins the winey-*ssed lyrics prize.

Here are a few more things I’d like to have said:

 

Five For Fighting – Superman (It’s Not Easy)

 

I can’t stand to fly

Oh, yeah? Try it with security lines, buster.


I’m not that naive

WHAT does this have to do with no being able to fly?

I’m just out to find
The better part of me

Perhaps you should look behind the sofa cushions.  I find when people set out to find themselves, if they just do a really good spring cleaning, they usually get more out of it than by going on a spree.  Of course, clearly it’s more fun going on a spree.

……..

It’s not easy to be me
 

Where we find that Superman is REALLY twelve and hasn’t yet discovered it’s not easy being anyone.

Wish that I could cry

Onions are good for that.  Or did they perform a tearductomy.

Fall upon my knees

Oh, sweetie, I’m so not touching THAT with a ten foot pole.

Find a way to lie
About a home I’ll never see

No one wants to hear you lie whine  boliviate about the home you’ll never see.  Trust me.  Geez, like the Roman imperial guard lamenting their lost Germanic homeland.  But none wanted to go back.

It may sound absurd

It DOES sound absurd.  Message from Fred, much?

But don’t be naive

Excuse me, have we been introduced?

Even heroes have the right to bleed

Now there’s a right to fight for.  "We MUST fight for our right to bleed."  Uh uh.  Shakespeare said it better.  "If you cut us, do we not bleed?"  In fact I declare a moratorium on lyrics reprising Shakespeare.

I may be disturbed  whiney

Fixed it for you
 
But won’t you concede

Anything, if it will stop you playing the watering pot from public location speakers, thank you much.

Even heroes have the right to dream

Yes, but must they TALK in their sleep.

It’s not easy to be me

Oy, vey, it’s not easy to LISTEN to you.

 

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I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive

You should join the North American Non Sequitur society.  They don’t make sense, but they like pizza.

Men weren’t meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

um….  um…. um…  (Bites tongue till it bleeds.)

I’m only a man in a silly red sheet

The fact that I hear this line as "I’m more than a man, consorting with sheep" greatly improves the song.

Digging for kryptonite on this one way street

 Yes, I often look for arsenic in my shower.  NON SEQUITORS DON’T MAKE YOU A PROFOUND THINKER!

Only a man in a funny red sheet

I still like it better with sheep.

Looking for special things inside of me

I recommend a good Atlas of the human body. 

It’s not easy to be me

IOW you suffered for your art and now it’s our turn?
 

6 thoughts on “Sarah Talks Back at Music”

  1. For a long time, there was a song by Green Day that I liked solely because of the first two lines.
    “Do you have the time
    To listen to me whine?”
    Uh, NO I DON’T. But thanks for playing! Your lovely consolation prize is a pacifier!

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  4. Wow. I’ve never actually heard all the lyrics to this song because I was so put off by the wimpy, whiny, anemic voice of the emo boy who sings this number. Now I see I haven’t missed anything.

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