What do these song lyrics mean?

by gumby 29 Replies latest jw friends

  • gumby
    gumby

    Hey my fellow brothers and sister in the Lord....I need some help in figuring out the meaning to this song.

    It by Five for Fighting and it's called Superman(it ain't easy) I'm stumped and I love to sing and play the song on my gee-tar.

    Here's the Lyrics

    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...

    Its not easy to be me

    Gumsongbird

  • Sad emo
    Sad emo

    Looks to me like a guy who's just trying to get on in life and improve himself but people are putting him on a pedestal expecting him to be something even better.

    He's fighting with his conscience whether he should pretend to be what others think he is and live the lie whilst all he really wants to be is himself.

    Nice lyrics

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    Gumby..The song is about you!..It`s tuff be`n a guy with big nuts!..LOL!!...OUTLAW

  • gumby
    gumby

    Thanks Sad emo....I thought nobody was gonna answer me

    That's a good observation and one I hadn't thought of.

    I thought it might be about a homeless guy but I haven't a clue.

    Gumby

  • zensim
    zensim

    Hey Gumby - that's one of my favourite songs! I used to wonder what it meant listening to it also (I love it more for the music, but even tho I didn't understand the lyrics properly, they still grabbed me, maybe the way it's sung). But now you have written the words down I kind of agree with Sad emo. Funny, when I read the words I actually thought of Jesus and wondered how much the bible misrepresents the very human aspects of him - as this song tries to convey? (not that I am saying the song is about Jesus)

  • JamesThomas
    JamesThomas
    It`s tuff be`n a guy with big nuts!..

    Especially when they're someone else's:

    alt

    j

  • Mary
    Mary

    My take on the song is that it's supposed to be someone of prominence who's maybe in the public eye and who's put on a pedastel by many or seen as a Superman. But he's trying to say that he's just an average person---no one special and that's how he wants to be remembered.

    image

  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    So am I the only guy that thought it was really about Superman?

    Dave

  • free2beme
    free2beme

    Sounds like a song about Superman, saying that he is not as perfect as people think he is and even he has the human weakness of pain and hurt inside.

  • Jin
    Jin

    i think it about being superman?.

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