Niv Dayan - "Special"
Channel: Niv Dayan
Date: 2015-02-19

A song about mediocrity. 

Lyrics:
When I'm older
I'm gonna carry the world on one shoulder
I'm gonna memorize any beholder
With smarts and dashing looks

I'm gonna be a dancer and
I'm gonna find the cure for cancer and
I'll be a gentleman, a scholar and a gangster and
I'm gonna go down the history books

I'm gonna be like the Hulk in terms of size
And in terms of brains I'll win a Nobel prize
I'll be courageous
And on stage I'm gonna be outrageous
And my lyrics will be infectious
I'll make the Rolling Stone's top list

As for the ladies
I'm gonna give them the hots and the crazies
They're all gonna wonna have my babies
They'll be thankful I exist

I fantasize about the moments I would seize
Meanwhile in school, I'm getting all C's

Cause I'm special, and you're special, and
She's special, and we're all fucking special
No, we're just common garden weeds
The only special thing we got might be special needs, and

I'm special, and you're special, and
She's special, and we're all fucking special
No, forget what mommy and daddy say
We're pretty normal and that's okay

Now I'm older
Substantially fatter and balder
The world's giving me a cold shoulder
And all my dreams are dead

My best friend is a hamster
Running in its wheel faster and faster
Just like the life of which I never was a master
Cause I was masturbating instead

I'm about as sharp as a butter knife
And I'm good at many things, just not at life

I'm melancholic
And my sex life is mostly electronic
And I protect myself by being self-ironic
And I'm singing you this song

Because I was feeling pensive
And a therapist is too expensive and
My incompetence is comprehensive and
It feels like everything went wrong

What will I do with my life, I got angst galore
Yea I'm sure no one's ever heard of that before

Cause I'm special and you're special and
She's special and we're all fucking special
No, we just drink and smoke a lot of weed
And aside to that we don't have any other need

I'm special and you're special
She's special and we're all fucking special
What you see is what you get and what you get is what you see
We're pretty normal and that's finally fine with me

As a kid I was told that my only limitation
Would be the power of my imagination
Now as an adult my life feels like blah
Guess a poor imagination is my only flaw

No I'm tired of that dangerous and viscous meme
That if I worked hard, I could seize my dreams
We have social mobility but one can observe
That we all fall into the same bell curve

Theoretically I could have been a big hot shot
The possibility was there, but the talent was not
So Carpe Diem's not a thing to rejoice
It paralyzes you with the illusion of choice

Every fucking kid thinks he's gonna be a failure
Unless he becomes humanity's savior
I'm no polemic but I think inferiority
Complexes have become a deadly global epidemic

You my think I'm hypocritical or kinda strange
To say I'm not special but to want the stage
Well you were totally deceived if you thought that I was modest
I'm a vain motherfucker but at least I'm honest

I could tell you that virtue and love,
Are a part of our purpose from a god above
These ideas are appealing, but also in a way
Intellectually weak and just a bit cliché

So well I'm not that smart, but I try to cut the distance
Between my brain and the meaning of existence
Perhaps the only thing that matters or that should
Is that the chemical balance in my brain feels good

Cut to the chase, though my life's a disgrace
And though photoshop's the best thing that happened to my face
If the scientists are right and we have no free will
Disappointment is a questionable thing to feel

Now I don't care if I'm famous when I'm dead
I wonna have a good time here on earth instead, cause

I'm special and you're special and
She's special and we're all fucking special
No, we're just glorious garden weeds
The only special thing we got might be special needs and

I'm special and You're special and
She's special and we're not that special
No you're pretty normal and there's nothing you can do 
But there's no need to stress or for feeling blue, cause
We still really like you