superman

i liked this song of Five for Fighting because it expresses a person's longing to be understood and to be treated fairly, that is, as someone who has feelings and even weaknesses even though he might have some special talents, skills or capacities that sets him or her apart from others.


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' 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


sometimes we put a person upon a pedestal and believe he or she could be some kind of a hero or savior and when he or she fails to measure up to what we conceive him or her to be we reject him or her and even turn against him or her forgetting that he or she is just like us - though somehow more gifted, more talented or more capable in some ways than us - he or she is only human, or creature, and not God.