歌曲 | Average Man |
歌手 | Gavin Castleton |
专辑 | #blessed |
Now when I was a young boy, | |
‘bout the age of five | |
my teachers told me | |
I could be the greatest man alive | |
they told me I could change the world | |
be whatever I wanted to be | |
there was no one in the world like me | |
every one of us was so unique | |
I’d not be an average man | |
no sir, I’d be no average man | |
so I had those big dreams | |
and I had those big skills | |
had a reason to live | |
and I had some time to kill | |
but the world got louder still | |
yeah the world got louder still | |
it tried to drown me out | |
it tried to break down my will | |
“Get out my way, I ain’t no average man” | |
I was thinking so much bigger than the average man | |
they flood my feed with all these useless lists | |
while I was curing cancer with these nonstop hits | |
so I was bitter towards the average man | |
then I hit my thirties like a bird against a window | |
I couldn’t reconcile the two disparate versions of me: | |
on the one hand was this man in search of comfort | |
and on the other was this meta-superhero I could be | |
maybe my eyes were never big | |
maybe my head was small | |
the man who knows his place | |
may be the greatest man of all | |
I found freedom in obscurity | |
and purity in poverty | |
why try to be amazing in a world so saturated with amazingness? | |
it’s blazing us | |
exhausting me, | |
I wonder what it’s costed me, | |
the price I’ve paid for baby boomers | |
propping up my self-esteem, | |
I should let go of all these scripted, movie-lifted dreams | |
and seek solace in my species | |
as an average man | |
I’ll pay admission like an average man | |
I’ll raise a family like the average man | |
I’ll rock the hairline of an average man | |
I’ll binge on Netflix like an average man | |
I drop a remix like an average man | |
I crowd-source it like an average man | |
I’m hyperbolic like an average man | |
I only iterate like an |
Now when I was a young boy, | |
' bout the age of five | |
my teachers told me | |
I could be the greatest man alive | |
they told me I could change the world | |
be whatever I wanted to be | |
there was no one in the world like me | |
every one of us was so unique | |
I' d not be an average man | |
no sir, I' d be no average man | |
so I had those big dreams | |
and I had those big skills | |
had a reason to live | |
and I had some time to kill | |
but the world got louder still | |
yeah the world got louder still | |
it tried to drown me out | |
it tried to break down my will | |
" Get out my way, I ain' t no average man" | |
I was thinking so much bigger than the average man | |
they flood my feed with all these useless lists | |
while I was curing cancer with these nonstop hits | |
so I was bitter towards the average man | |
then I hit my thirties like a bird against a window | |
I couldn' t reconcile the two disparate versions of me: | |
on the one hand was this man in search of comfort | |
and on the other was this metasuperhero I could be | |
maybe my eyes were never big | |
maybe my head was small | |
the man who knows his place | |
may be the greatest man of all | |
I found freedom in obscurity | |
and purity in poverty | |
why try to be amazing in a world so saturated with amazingness? | |
it' s blazing us | |
exhausting me, | |
I wonder what it' s costed me, | |
the price I' ve paid for baby boomers | |
propping up my selfesteem, | |
I should let go of all these scripted, movielifted dreams | |
and seek solace in my species | |
as an average man | |
I' ll pay admission like an average man | |
I' ll raise a family like the average man | |
I' ll rock the hairline of an average man | |
I' ll binge on Netflix like an average man | |
I drop a remix like an average man | |
I crowdsource it like an average man | |
I' m hyperbolic like an average man | |
I only iterate like an |