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Now when I was a young boy,
âbout 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
Iâd not be an average man
no sir, Iâd 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
âGet out my way, I ainât no average manâ
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 couldnât 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?
itâs blazing us
exhausting me,
I wonder what itâs costed me,
the price Iâve 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
Iâll pay admission like an average man
Iâll raise a family like the average man
Iâll rock the hairline of an average man
Iâll binge on Netflix like an average man
I drop a remix like an average man
I crowd-source it like an average man
Iâm hyperbolic like an average man
I only iterate like an