I'd like to be your hero - I am a mighty little man

My favorite "making pancakes on a lazy Saturday" album has to be Songs for Dustmites by Steve Burns.
It's a nice happy album about science and love and full of things I might have thought or said or done. Sure the guy made it into the world music and such writing music/being on the Blues Clues children's program (which I admit I've never seen so can't comment on), but his first "real" album is still one of my favorites. We came across it at the community radio station and from the first listen, I was very impressed.
Apparently he's influenced by Flaming Lips...which can only be a good thing in my mind. According to what I've heard, Burns was at a party when someone played the Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin." Story goes that he got very excited and immediately bought the album, and began working on his own music, leaving behind Blues Clues for something else. He even convinced the Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins to be in on the work. I've heard the album described as "indie rock" and " having a slightly folksy bent to the songs, as if folk were played on a spaceship". It's been called a concept album, but to me it's just a collection of intelligent thoughts about things put to music I happen to really enjoy...I suppose I'd call him a musical godlet.

Go have a listen.
Here's a few of my favorite lyrics from the album...I listened to the album this morning on my way to work and it's made me happy. *grin*

Mighty Little Man
-Steve Burns-

A tired man in his chair
doesn't move he only stares
at the machine across the room
there's nothing there; it's not getting through
he shakes his head, finally stands up
throws his hands up in the air
a blinding flash across the room
a sudden crash, a sonic boom changes everything he knew
it's everything he's never seen
the biggest deal there's ever been
described in light upon the screen
(it said)
nobody else is stronger than I am
yesterday I moved a mountain
I'd like to be your hero
I am a mighty little man

from way up here you can't look down
as of now there is no ground
the microscope is turned around
don't be alarmed, don't make a fuss
he's still like you; he's one of us
and he'll come back before too long

he takes a breath and clears his mind
grabs his coat and steps outside
an empty street, there's no one there
he lifts himself into the air
a billion thoughts expressed as one
etched in words across the sun
(it said)
nobody else is stronger than I am
yesterday I moved a mountain
I'd like to be your hero
I am a mighty little man

Songs For Dustmites

Nano you and nano me
Living beside the micron sea
Will the stars spin around the earth again
I don't know it's up to them
They'll get to it later
The biggest baddest world you've ever seen
Is smaller than a tear
Where all the kids have robot hearts
And dustmites fight with micro gears

When the earth was still and the universe spun round
Biggest baddest world you've ever seen
Is smaller than a tear
Where all the kids have robot hearts
And dustmites fight with micro gears