Average Man

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...