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This is such an awesome CD. I urge you to buy it. Right after the first time I heard "Superman" I bought the album and haven't stopped listening to it yet. I'm not sure if I like the music more or the message their lyrics carry. I'm sure once you give it a listen, you'll become a huge FFF fan like me and get hooked to their music. This is the very first time I have ever even felt strongly enough about a CD to spend my five minutes to even fill out a review of it. I think I go to their website almost everyday (...). Let me tell you: I am addicted!
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I bought this CD for the song SUPERMAN (IT'S NOT EASY TO BE ME). Great song. You just gotta throw your heart out to the guy in this song. John Ondrasik's (I think that's his name) voice reminds me of Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, Creed, Matchbox 20... etc.
There are other good songs on this CD. But I dunno about that Michael Jordon song... kinda wierd. Well it's not a waste of money to buy the CD that's for sure.
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Here's the equation: Coldplay + Dave Matthews = Five for Fighting (yeah, it's not an original thought, but it's a good one). The lyrics are moving, but a little confusing. That's OK, though, because the lyrics are only part of it all. The musical quality is absolutely amazing. BUY THIS CD!!!
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The editorial review about America Town, specifically the line from Superman, "digging for Kryptonite on a one way street," misses the point completely.
First of all, the song is not about the actual Clark Kent, it's about normal, average people struggling in their lives to be more and to just be enough. Superman is a metaphor for the illusory perfection in people's lives. "Even heroes have the right to dream," even people who seem to fulfill all their duties and obligation still/especially need their own breathing room. As for the line, "digging...," it's a metaphor for the mortality of life. We humans are merely digging on the one way street of life until we hit some insurmountable obstacle.
My interpretation is not the only one, but it still seems clear to me that the song is not about the actual Superman. I think the editorial review could've done without the unimaginative literal reading of the song.
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The band Five for Fighting (named after the hockey term meaning five minutes in the penalty box for fighting) appeared on CNN's Larry King Live on October 25, 2001 to perform their song "Superman," which is featured on the album "American Town." The song has quickly become, since September 11th, like a new national anthem among firefighters, military personel, and others now working at ground zero in New York, at the Pentagon, in Afghanistan, and in other places around the world -- in other words, among those who are currently (as Shakespeare put it) having "greatness thrust upon them."
The song begins with the now-haunting words, "I can't stand to fly / I'm not that naive / I'm just out to find / The better part of me" and goes on to poignantly express the raw humanness of heroism -- those performing super-human acts of courage feel tremendous vulnerability.
Lead singer and songwriter John Ondrasik wrote "Superman" at a time when no one could have imagined how the year 2001 would unfold. But now the song, which ironically speaks much of lonliness, has hit home for so many people that it has become a powerful unifying force in and of itself.
The music that goes along with the lyrics is beautiful. Listening to this song and feeling what it says will help you better understand something of the history that we're living in right now.
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