Tuesday, August 7, 2007

It`s not easy to be a hero

Hi everybody!!! I found this wonderful song by "Five for fighting". The name of the song is :


"It`s not easy". I would like you to read the lyrics and listen to the song , then I would like you to write a comment connecting the main ideas in the listening activity that we did in our language class about christopher Reeve and the different topics that we discussed in class after watching the episodes of SMALLVILLE. This will be our final task in our thematic unit about HEROES.


I can’t stand to fly

I’m not that naive

I’m just out to find
The better part of me


I’m more than a bird...

i’m more than a plane


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 naive

Even heroes have the right to bleed

I may be disturbed...but won’t you concede

Even heroes have the right to dream

It’s not easy to be me

Up, up and away...away from me

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 naive

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

Inside meYeah, inside me

Inside of me

I’m only a man

In a funny red sheet

I’m only a man

Looking for a dream

I’m only a man

In a funny red sheet

And it’s not easy, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm...

Its not easy to be me
Listen to the song here and enjoy the video clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjjbYQpAr-E

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi..!! i`m sofia!!
I`m going to talk about the conection of the song "It`s not easy to be a hero" and smallville.
I think that the song is related in some thing.for example: when it`s said that he can`t cry because he doesn`t fell like clark in smallville..because he has his powers.Another example it can be:in the part that said it`s not easy to be me,because he has powers,and he wants to be a normal person,like in smallville.
And well..i think that clark,in smallville want to be a normal person like anyone,and in the song is refearing to the same.
I like the song very much..!

goodby..!

sofia..!

Mendoza said...

Hello
Im Pablo , Alias: Mendoza
I don't like the song , but , xD
he can't cry because he the iron man
In one seasin [I think the 6] he has no powers , he feel like a normal person but , later he got shot and ...
I'm telling the episode xD , later I will upload it for the people

Moncho said...

Hi miss.... i don't like the song but the lyrics are quite good....



Aguante la 25 gente................................ Porque el rock se lleva en las venas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

hi!! I`m Anahi. I want to say the conections that the song and smallville have each other.
I think that it`s not easy to be a hero because clark can`t tell anyone about his powers because they will bother him,
so he wants to be a normal boy that was what he wishes.

I think that the song is good,



anahi

yellowsubmarine said...

hi

I think the idea of the song is that heroes, in this case Clark, are more than a person that save other people (with their powers or not)... It says too that is not so easy to be what they are. They've their dreams, like any other man. In the song says that "he" wish to cry or to lie...but i think clark can do all that things(lie, cry, love, and other things that every human can do)
There is a difference between Clark Kent and the other Superman(Christopher Reeve), and is that only Clark's parents are the only people who know about Clark's powers...when Clark save someone, run quikly so anyone could discover him; but in the case of the other Superman (Christopher Reeve), a lot of people know about a man (superman) that save peolpe... this
"Superman" is more "famous"...thats
why he uses a disguise to hide his
identity.

Alina Teran said...

well done, all of you!!!.specially you Imanol!!! deep thinkng, that`s what I have been asking from all of you!"!. Moncho, you can expand your opinion further than just likes and dislikes. come on give it a try!!!
Miss Alina. =)

Anonymous said...

I like the lyrics of the song and the video in youtube. I think I've understand the song, Superman says to himself that he is looking for special things inside him.
He wanted to be a normal person, he doesn't want to have all his responsabilities. Many times he have had to make excuses to save his secret, his other "identity"( I don't know how to wright that).
Is like being two persons in case of Superman but Clark was the same all the time, he didn't have the"funny red sheet" that Superman used, he had to save someone and scape so anyone see him.



Mis Alina said: jaja




Javier said: jaja


Who haved laughed at the end???

Miss Alina said: jajaja



D'OH
Miss Alina always laugh at the end

;-)

Anonymous said...

hi miss, well i saw the video and it is very interesting because i saw clark`s life is too hard beacuse he has to personlalitis . 1 of them is the normal guy and the other 1 is from a hero. being a hero is very difficult because he has to save a lot of people and be in every trouble to solve people`s problems

good by
ignacio c.g.

Anonymous said...

hi miss, I liked the song and it`s lyrics, they mean a lot.. but my opinion about it`s very long so i`m not gonna write it down here right now.. Every episode of SMALLVILLE is interesting and have something that migh be a "clue" when the story continues. I like that beacuse to understand it completly you have to like it and sometimes you have to be critical (no me acuerdo como se pone) and you also can create your own story based on what you have already seen. I found thos thing very funny.
GOOD BYE, Tomas o. De R.

Anonymous said...

I think that i understand the song...because is not easier to be two persons in one.And can't tell yours friends about your secret you only talk this with yours parents.Is not easier to be a heroe....

MILAGROS POVIÑA

Anonymous said...

Hi,well i think thee song is kind of sad because this hero has to be two persons and he can´t tell this to his friends.And he is triying to find the best of himself.
I like the song and i think it must be hard to be a hero.
Sofia Michel

Anonymous said...

hi! I like very much the song and the relation that has with smallville! and I think that is dificult to clark to be a hero because he has to be two persons at the same time because he can`t said to anyone that he is a hero.

Anonymous said...

hi! I like very much the song and the relation that has with smallville! and I think that is dificult to clark to be a hero because he has to be two persons at the same time because he can`t said to anyone that he is a hero.

Maria Jose B

Anonymous said...

hi i´m lourdes ise gelsi:
i think that the conection of the song and Clark is that in partClark prefer be a normal guy tha na super hero,"i´m only a man in a funny red sheet"(song)because he has a dream that he whant to realise like a normal guy but he cant because he is saving the world and the people he love.Clark sometime doesnt no what to do because he have like two personalities and he doesnt know how to act or what he realy whant to be "it´s not easy to be me"(song)

thats why i think the song and clark are conected.

miss the song is buenisima jeje

Matiu said...

hi miss
sorry for waiting so much to make the comment but i had my head on the partial exams and i kept forgeting to do this homework.Anyway i think that the connection beetween the song and smallville is that the song tells all Clark`s feelings towards being a hero and not being able to share that secret with the people he loves