Mike Viola Superkid II, Trying To Do The Thing That I Thought I Was Born To Do
[Verse 1]
Sometimes I wear a suit and a tie
And stumble into my day like Dick Van Dyke
I never picked a career or had a horse in a race
After all of these years I'm all over the place
Like the roots of a tree stretching into the ground
Looking for water wherever it can be found
Searching for a purpose and a fork in the path
Do I join the circus or do I do the math?
A life of security is never really secure
And getting through the day isn't what living is for
[Chorus]
No, I don't wanna fight it
I don't want to fight it
Trying to do the thing that I thought I was born to do
[Verse 2]
I tell the story of the Superkid
To help me make sense of a life unlived
I'm not afraid to fall, I've fallen before
It ain't nothing it all it's just another open door
Maybe you're an artist who just wants to paint
Maybe I'm a singer, maybe I ain't
Maybe secret fears have been holding me back
Maybe somebody here has been holding me back
It's all a distraction that feeds a disease
That keeps me from being the man I wanna be
[Chorus]
I don't want to fight it
No, I don't want to fight it
Trying to do the thing that I thought I was born to do
[Verse 3]
Maybe you're a banker behind a closed door
Maybe you're a fighter in someone else's war
I sing a sitcom theme stumbling again
Over this prop furniture in front of family and friends
I like to unwind in a puddle of thread
Till the black curtains drop and it's time for bed
Tonight I wander alone on this dead end street
Singing to the shadows while my family sleeps
Your daddy is a bird who flies in the rain
Dancing in the wildflowers growing in his brain
[Chorus]
I don't want to fight it
I don't want to fight it
Trying to do the thing that I thought I was born to do