We Might Be Heroes: The Orphan

Why is it in every movie

There’s a woman

Telling a man

Not to do the thing

Everybody needs him to do?

‘No, Scott, don’t box that guy.  If you take one more hit to the head, you could die!’

‘No , Daniel, don’t get on that ship.  We don’t need the money that bad.  And a storm’s comin’!’

‘No, Pete, don’t coach that team.  Me and the kids need you.’

Geez

I never wanted to be that woman

The one telling her husband

He shouldn’t do something

He wanted to do

If you want to do it, go right ahead

Just so long as you know

I’m going to do what I wanna do too, okay?

Okay

And me and my husband got along great

And by great, I mean

I don’t have a husband

Because who needs that, right?

I don’t do well with people

People need things from you

They need you to listen to ‘em

To love ‘em

To stick around when you’d rather go

To leave ‘em alone when you just want to be next to ‘em

People are a pain in the ass

I was an orphan, growing up

So I got used to it just being me

And nobody left me in a pretty basket somewhere either

I got left in a trash can

In an alley

Outside an apartment building

On the rougher side

Of an already pretty rough town

I was in an orphanage for the first part of my life

Then I got bounced around from foster home to foster home

And finally, when I was thirteen

I ran away

And fended for myself for a couple of years

Doing whatever I had to do

And at no point, did I ever trust somebody else

To give me something I needed

Or tell me the truth

Or love me

Or anything

But the one thing I could do

The one thing that helped me out the most

Was speed

I could always move fast

Really fast

And that got me out of

Some tough situations

Now I’m signing up for this Enhanced Abilities program

To see if I can put that skill to use

In this little skirmish we’re about to have

And it’s not because I want to be a hero

I haven’t survived this long

Just so I can die

And people can talk about how swell I was

No, I’m doing this because I want people to see

That it doesn’t matter where you start

It’s where you wind up

And a million people standing in front of you

Still can’t get in your way

The same way you can

If you decide you’re not enough on your own

Does that make sense?

You know, Superman’s an orphan too

So is Batman

And probably some others too

That I don’t know about

When I was growing up

Other kids around without parents

Would always feel ashamed

For not having folks

I never felt that way

In my mind, I told myself

That my parents just didn’t want

To hold me back

Or get in my way

They set me down

The same way we all gotta get set down sometime

I just got a head start