lie
fly
plane
silly
fall

ride
crazy
cry
pretty
train
heroes
bird
absurd
disturbed
weren’t
more
their
never
better

away way
wish
with
won’t

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than
that

th
-voice
things
anything

it’s
digging
kryptonite

right to bleed
right to dream
it’s all right
all sleep sound

naïve
concede
just

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I can't stand to fly.
I'm not that naïve.
I'm just out to find
the better part of me.  

I'm more than a bird.
I'm more than a plane.
I'm 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 naïve.
Even heroes have the right to bleed.
I may be disturbed, but won't you concede
even heroes have the right to dream.
And it's not easy to be me

Up, up and away, away from me.
Well, 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 naïve.
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)
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet.
Only a man looking for a dream

I'm only a man a funny red sheet.
And it's not easy
It's not easy to be me.

Vocabulary
absurd                              
to lie
naïve                                
dig
a red sheet                       
hero

*reference to the human ego regarding fame and power
**reference to Superman’s clothes
***Superman gets his energy from kryptonite