Super Powers

If I ran a game store I would play the song Super Powers by Ookla the Mok.

We're all familiar with the origin stories of the A-list superheroes. Here's Ookla the Mok having some fun poking at those origin stories. Super Powers is a rock tune that rattles off origin after origin, teasing superheroes for how they receive(d) their powers. It dogs them for their apparel and crime-fighting tools of the trade. It also provides the first team-up for the heroes that appear to be minted in the first half of the song. Super Powers is a good one to play in a game store, at a comic shop, or in line for a superhero movie. And with the current crush of superhero movies it's a song that a lot of people can enjoy - this one's not just for geeks.

Super Powers is from Ookla the Mok's 1998 album, Super Secret.

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Super Powers lyrics

I got bitten by a radioactive bug
I tried an experimental drug
I went out for a stroll on a gamma testing range
I found an enchanted Uru cane

I made a serum that made me small
I modified the serum so it would make me tall
I got radioactive isotope in my eye
A dying alien helped me accessorize

I gained the proportionate strength of a spider
Now I'm invincible and I can fly
I lost my sight and my other senses were heightened
I'm gonna put on my pajamas and go fight crime

Now I'm a super hero (now I am a)
I'm a super hero now (super hero)
Now I'm a super hero (I'm a super)
I got my super powers (hero now)

My best friend and my girlfriend and her brother went into space
Who thought we'd get bombarded by cosmic rays?
It turns out I'm the last of a powerful alien race
My mother formed me from a lump of magic clay

I'm given super powers by a yellow sun
I studied under the Ancient One
I got an adamantium skeleton
Some grizzled old wizard taught me a magic acronym

I got the wisdom of Solomon
And the strength of Hercules
I haven't memorized what AZAM was
But I still fight evil in my red pajamas

Now I'm a super hero (now I am a)
I'm a super hero now (super hero)
Now I'm a super hero (I'm a super)
I got my

I gotta get me a helicopter
And you can get a jet plane
We'll take out their surveillance tower
We can make up code names

You get home
At the end of your day
I'll pack your parachute and put away
Your utility belt and gas grenades
You were never meant to see
I showed you my secret identity

I suppose that I could always hypnotize you
If I wanted to
But I propose another thing
You can wear my decoder ring
We'll have matching hovercraft
We can go undercover

After all
We might just fall
Like stars from the sky
You know too
But I know you
You won't be happy 'til you try

Super hero
Team-up
Cowboy secret space detective, true love
Super villain
Two-in-one
Bad guys have taken over Washington

Don't be scared
'Cause I'm prepared
There's an emergency
But I'm ready
Fortunately I'm a super hero too
I got super powers just like you

Now I'm a super hero
Now I'm a super hero
Now I'm a super hero
I got my