It's Not Easy to Be Green

SUPERFROG (It's Not Easy to Be Green)

Parody of Five For Fighting's "Superman (It's Not Easy)"

Lyrics by M. Spaff Sumsion

PERFORMED BY ROBERT LUND

M. Spaff Sumsion: Lead Vocal

Robert Lund: Everything Else

I can't stand to swim

Swamps soak right through me

I'm not amphibian

I just play one on TV

I'm more than a sock

I'm more than a frog

I'm more than some banjo player on a log

And it's not easy to be green

Wish that I could say

What's with the Elmo fuss

Are Bert and Ernie gay?

Is Snuffleupagus?

My friends seem bizarre

Perhaps DUI

But even monsters need a sugar high

I'm only a frog

With ping-pong ball eyes

Riding my bicycle with spindly thighs

And it's not easy to be green

Time to put on makeup, light the lights

And dress up right

On the Muppet Show tonight

I'm not gonzo

But Gonzo is

Wish that I had taped

Electric Company

Wish I could escape

The pigs that hit on me

I'm only a frog

With sex appeal

Walking 'round naked 'cept for this collar deal

Only a frog

With a licensing fee

Missing Jim Henson's hand inside of me

Inside of me...

I'm only a frog with styrofoam feet

Workin' the rough side of Sesame Street

I'm only a frog in the Disney machine

And it's not easy

It's not easy

To be

Green