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.
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It’s not easy to be me
The better part of 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.
According To Hoyt 