Average

Average

-adjective

• typical, common, ordinary

Today’s world seems to be teetering on the very brink of craziness. It just seems to get stranger with each passing day. With twenty four hour news cycles driven by a news media that can’t wait to tell you had bad things are, it’s easy to begin wondering if the whole wide world has gone mad. If you feel that way maybe songwriter Dennis Linde’s words can make you stop and smile…

 

"The people in the city call me country

Because of how I walk and talk and smile

I don't mind them laughin' in the city

But the country folks all say I'm citified

The fightin' men they say that I'm a coward

Because I never pushed no one around

 

Gentle people call me troublemaker

‘Cause I'll always fight and stand my ground

Funny I don't fit

Where have all the average people gone?

Some pious people point and call me sinner

Because to them I've never seen the light

 

Other folks think of me as a preacher

I'm just doin' what I think is right

The wealthy people think that I am a hobo

Lean and hungry, writin' mournful songs

And the poor, poor people think I am a rich man

But really I'm just tryin' to get along

Yes, it's funny I don't fit

Tell me, where have all the average people gone?

And the government has given me a number

To simplify my birth and life and death

And still my woman thinks I'm awful important

Like the moon and the sun and the sea and the sky and breath

Yes, it's funny I don't fit

Where have all the average people gone?

Funny I don't fit

Where have all the average people gone?"

So, the next time you feel the world getting off it’s axis…don’t add to the drama, stop, smile and thank God you’re average.

 

“Where Have All The Average People Gone?” written by Dennis Linde, performed by Roger Miller and also by the Avett Brothers.