Idina Menzel

I love me some Idina Menzel. Her new song, I Stand, kinda irritates me though. I loved it at first, but then two lines started to get on my nerves. See the lyrics below. The two lines are "I hope for a hero to save me." and "I don't try and change the world; But what will you make of me?" Why do you need a hero to save you? Save yourself. The whole song is about what you stand for and what you believe in, but then you hope for a hero to save you? Um . . . how about you be the strong woman that you are and just do it yourself instead of waiting and hoping for someone else to do it for you. Then the part about "what will you make of me?" I don't know if I'm just not understanding the lyric correctly, but life shouldn't be about what the world or other people make of us, it should be about what we make of ourselves. And I don't know about the rest of you, but if I can change the world, you best be believing I'm going to do it. Why would you not? Think of all the lives you can change and all the good you can do if you're not sitting around waiting for a hero to save you!

"I Stand"

When you ask me, who I am:
What is my vision? And do I have a plan?
Where is my strength? Have I nothing to say?
I hear the words in my head, but I push them away.

'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
I stand for the strange and lonely,
I believe there's a better place.
I don't know if the sky is heaven,
But I pray anyway.

And I don't know
What tomorrow brings
The road less traveled
Will it set us free?
Cause we are taking it slow,
These tiny legacies.
I don't try and change the world;
But what will you make of me?

'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
I stand for the strange and lonely,
I believe there's a better place.
I don't know if the sky is heaven,
But I pray anyway.

With the slightest of breezes
We fall just like leaves
As the rain washes us from the ground
We forget who we are
We can't see in the dark
And we quickly get lost in the crowd

'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
I stand for the strange and lonely,
I believe there's a better place.
I don't know if the sky is heaven,
But I pray anyway.