(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman Lyrics

Lyric discussion by pandatronic 

Cover art for (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman lyrics by Kinks, The

It's about the Winter of Discontent in Great Britain in 1979-1979, when this song was written.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike Got to be a superman to survive

There were tonnes of strikes in that year, at that brought Marageret Thatcher into power. Ray was aying that the world was so f-ed up in 1979, that you needed super-powers to get things done.