Look up in the sky: it’s a bird, it’s a plane
It’s a person to save all we’ve made
It’s just your average everyday super-powered superhero
flyin’ through the sky and all tryin’ to save people
Faster than a bullet, tougher than a tank,
runnin’ like a train, nothin’ in his way; he’s come to save the day
from the evildoers and the villains fillin’ up the street,
the shepherd to stop the fox from killin’ all the sheep
A million on his beat, he watches the whole city as it sleeps
A guardian to keep the peace on the streets
The newspaper reads “a hero arises”
A new hope for a people in crisis
Evil is hidin’ and crime is down
something like twenty five percent; that ain’t no minor step
He won’t face the spotlight though, he keeps it humble,
silently watching over his concrete jungle…a hero

Everybody have no fear
Who we’re waiting for is finally here
to do what he needs to do
and make the city safe enough for me and you
Look up in the sky: it’s a bird, it’s a plane
It’s the one who’s going to save us

It was a dark night; it was the perfect crime
Makin’ the getaway, he thought he heard a guy
behind him, and suddenly he’s on the ground lyin’
his hands tied, and a man’s standin’ beside him

Well aren’t you the hero, arrive to the emergency
C’mon man, I stole a hundred dollars from a burger king
But the city’s safer I suppose
Well as long as I got caught, I want you to know:
Listen: I ain’t the bad guy; I’m just hungry
and minimum wage is not enough in this country
If you want to fight crime, but you don’t go for the roots,
well you can win every battle, but all in all you’ll lose
You see crime comes from poverty, lack of opportunity
and poverty is policy in too many communities
And yeah, you’re proud of all the thieves you’ve stopped
but dog, all the real thieves already made it to the top
And what you need to know, the real evil yo:
Politicians and CEOS
And you can catch every petty criminal like me
But can you put food on the table of a starving family?
Can you get my job back at the factory?
Or healthcare for my mama’s sickness that she’s battling?
War, poverty, environmental catastrophe:
those are the crimes, why the hell you after me?

Everybody have no fear
Who we’re waiting for is finally here
to do what he needs to do
and make the city safe enough for me and you
Look up in the sky: it’s a bird, it’s a plane
It’s the one who’s going to save us

A month passed and the hero disappeared
and the people startin’ askin’ “what’s happenin’ here?”
Ski masks are down, they proceed with caution
And now crime is up, and the streets is talkin’
Did he leave his office? Is he gone for good?
Did he finally decide he did all he could?
Until one day, middle of autumn
leaves fallin’ the hero came back for a press conference

Ladies and gentlemen, people of the city
I’m sorry for my absence, really, I apologize
But all this time, I had to do some thinkin’
about the crimes that I did and didn’t authorize
Just call this a change of heart,
or better yet a change of perspective
See I’m a change directions
And I know fightin’ crime is hectic
but I see now: the police don’t fight the real evil, they protect it
And I’m sick of pretendin’
that only poor people have bad intentions
Yes I fight crime, and I intend to beat it
‘cause I will fight the conditions that created it and feed it
And there’s some evil here I can feel it
and I’m not going to rest ‘til it’s defeated, believe it
So if you’ll excuse me I got to fly out
See, I got some business at the White House