Fastest Man Alive

My entry for NPR’s 2020 Tiny Desk Contest.

Outdoor footage shot by Jake Kelley

Lyrics:

I dropped out of life to see
If I’m the fastest man alive can’t beat
The fastest man alive
Can’t beat the fastest man alive

But deep down there’s a part of me
That says all this positivity
Is gonna blow your heart to smithereens
How can you seriously believe
That you’re the fastest man alive
Can’t be the fastest man alive

You can do anything, they told me
You can be anyone, you like

I think somewhere along the way
You’re sposed to learn these thoughts > are insane
But somethings messed up in my brain
Constant parade and there’s no rain
And I’m at the front like I’m the > fastest man alive
Like I’m the fastest man alive

Oh, you wanna put it to the test
Sure I’ll run a 400, give this a rest
Break my heart, inside my chest
Trying to prove I’m actually the best
Prove I’m the fastest man alive
Prove I’m the fastest man alive

You can do anything, they told me
You can be anyone, you like
You can do anything
You can be anyone
They told me
But who are they and why do they keep > talking
I wish that they would shut up with > their talking

I just crossed the finish line
Don’t know and don’t care whats my time
Still gonna believe that I am the fastest Still gonna believe that I am the fastest Know in my heart that I am the fastest
So when I run I run like the fastest

I dropped out of life to see
If there’s a better way to live for me
Hoping for a grand epiphany
All I found looking right back at me
Was the fastest man alive
I’m the fastest man alive

I can do anything
I can be anyone
Even the fastest man alive
I am the fastest man alive