When You Were Heroes
I wish I could go back to when I looked at my parents as heroes
My Dad used to call me the Frog Prince and I thought it was true
That he was a kind of King
And my mother the Queen
I literally thought he was Superman
He looked like him, except with a gut
So I thought he’d retired from Superheroing
Gotten over his obsession with Lois Lane
Created a new identity as an insurance salesman
So Lex Luthor would finally leave him the fuck alone
I mean, the dude knew way too much
About the Bizarro World
And every different kind of Kryptonite
But in time you find out
That nobody is really superhuman
But sometimes they do seem close to being a supervillain
It’s called being human
A mere mortal
And it’s almost too impossibly big of a sin
To ever possibly forgive