Waiting for Superman (Flaming Lips / Iron and Wine)

The words:

I asked you a question
I didn t need you to reply
Is it getting heavy?
But they realize

Is it getting heavy?
Well I thought it was as
already as heavy as can be

Is it overwhelming
to use a crane to crush a fly?
It s a good time for Superman
to lift the sun into the sky

Cause it s getting heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be

Tell everybody waiting for Superman
That they should hold on as best they can
He hasn t dropped them, forgot them, or anything
It s just too heavy for Superman to lift

Cause it s getting heavy
Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be

Tell everybody waiting for Superman
That they should hold on as best they can
He hasn t dropped them, forgot them, or anything
It s just too heavy for Superman to lift

Why this is significant - since getting back from Zimbabwe, I have felt this weight upon my back, this duty, this responsibility to get the information out there, and yet with this urgency continuously upon me, I have had great trouble getting myself to sit down and write. Before I simply thought it was my fear of creating and producing and the criticism that that entails that would just be too much for me, I think that was part of it. However, hearing this song shed light upon the other part of it, what that weight was - it is just so heavy, emotionally draining and overwhelming, there is so much pain and suffering amidst such large amounts of human greed and disregard, it is too much. It brings up deep emotions that become very hard to deal with. That is why, even if I could, my gut level response is that I do not want to go back, it was so hard, the spirit is so heavy, it is difficult and uncomfortable, and my natural human response, which tortures me, is to want to avoid it.