| Jim's Big Ego – The Ballad of Barry Allen Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I've got time to think about the beauty of a thousand variations Of the beating of a wing Of a hummingbird suspended in the aspic of the world Moving slower than molasses As I'm off to catch the girl Who is falling off the bridge" A hummingbird is able to flap its wings up to two hundred times per second in order to fly at speeds of over 50 km/h... which, to a speedster like the Flash, is incredibly slow to the point that he could count each wingbeat and reflect on how their movement affects the hummingbird's motions. Everything else, he perceives as being trapped in 'aspic' or a clear jelly, almost as if they're all stuck in suspended animation from his perspective. "I've got time to think about my past As I dodge between the bullets How my life was so exciting Before I got this way And how long ago it was now I never can explain by the clock that's on the tower Or the one that's in my brain" This verse goes into Barry's past somewhat as a forensic investigator at the Central City Police Department before essentially creating the "Speed Force" that gave him his superpowers. It was more exciting to him to be able to deal with criminals on the same level as other humans; everything else seems like mild tedium now that he can dodge bullets going slightly faster than the speed of sound—an extremely casual feat for someone who can still manage to go sub-light speeds on a bad day. "How I wish I'd never gone into my lab To experiment that night Before lightning flashed around me And time changed speed Now I've got to try to be so patient For calamity to strike Because when things change in an instant It's almost fast enough for me" In his childhood, Barry was always laid-back and never really went out of his way to do anything extreme, especially after his mother, Nora Thompson was murdered and the crime blamed on his father which sparked his desire for justice later on, leading to his career as a forensic investigator. Adding onto what was said about verse two, Barry never asked to have the power of the Flash, but now that he has it, he can't not use it to better people's lives. Despite being incredibly laid-back, as the Flash, he still has to exercise an inhuman amount of patience because, in his eyes, the world moves at a snail's pace... and with the nearly unlimited power of the Speed Force at his disposal, Barry doesn't want to let what happened to his mother happen to anyone else. All the other verses and the chorus just work as examples for his unfathomable speed, namely phrases like "I'll be there before you know it / I'll be gone before you see me" and "you complain I'm gone before you blink your eye". |
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