McKinley Williams

Lyrics

A DIFFERENT KIND OF SUPERMAN

Music and Lyrics by
McKinley Williams

There is no father figure
or constitutions to delay us
There's only mass confusion
as our very lives betray us
Attempts fail to defy it
Brilliant falsehoods can't hide it
If there's gonna be answer...
change must come from deep inside us
If we're lucky
there might be enough time
for us to stand up and be...
a different kind of superman

This great maternal power
once strong enough to mold us
Laments the coming of the hour
where even prayers cannot hold us
Machines cannot define it
Even poets can't describe it...no, no
If there's gonna be an answer...
change must come from deep inside us
All nations, classes, creeds and colors
are gonna have to seize upon--or we'll be gone
a different kind of superman

INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS...

BRIDGE:

Lay down your weapons they're useless
No "powers that be" are held harmless
Why tend your gardens in defiance
when there's no escape from disquiet?

Could this be our final hour
amid the flotsam and the foment?
Maybe we can calm the waters
and bring back balance to this planet
Well, it will take a different vision
to quell the savagery within us...
More than economic power
for changes strong enough to bind us
All nations, classes, creeds and colors--
Come on let's wake up and finally see
that we can be
a different kind of superman
I said a different kind of superman
C'mon a different kind of superman
Let's be a different kind of superman

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