Film/ TV Song Submission: Michael Vanags

Song Title: The Man I'm Supposed to Be

Lyrics:

THE MAN I’M SUPPOSED TO BE

Every man I’ve ever met is a better man than me
Keeping up with Joneses, building life and family
There must be something they were shown that I just did not see
So every man I’ve ever met is a better man than me

Every woman I have known wanted more than I could give
Something deep inside my soul wrapped up tight and kept well hid
I could have stood, arms out, under love’s sweet rain but I just never did
So every one that I have known wanted more than I could give

I’ve been weighed down and found wanting
Caught, between the devil and his deep blue sea
Each night I pray just to quiet that voice and be the man I’m supposed to be
The man I’m supposed to be

And the difference is so simple
It’s the way we look at life.
We each stare out a window, you see beauty, I see a fight
I turn away from a woman’s gaze, you go dancing in her smile
You stop and smell the Jasmine breeze, I push on another mile

I’ve been weighed down and found wanting
Caught, between the devil and his deep blue sea
Each night I pray just to quiet that voice and be the man I’m supposed to be

And I’ve been weighed down, weighed down, way down the bottom, the bottom of this deep blue sea
And I pray, I pray, oh sweet Lord I pray, to be the man I’m supposed to be
The man I’m supposed to be

My Father left me long ago in this cage that has no key
So every man I’ve ever met is a better man than me

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