I am, I am, I am Superman
and I know what’s happening
I am, I am, I am Superman
and I can do anything
superman (n.)
1903, coined by George Bernard Shaw to translate German Übermensch, “highly evolved human being that transcends good and evil,” which is from “Also sprach Zarathustra” (1883-91), by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).
Übermensch the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–5).
Nietzsche thought that such a being could arise when any man of superior potential shook off the conventional Christian morality of the masses to create and impose his own values.
Über, is a German language word meaning “over”, “above” or “across”. It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is a cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over, Swedish över and Icelandic yfir, among other Germanic languages; it is a distant cognate to the Sanskrit word ūpari and Hindi ūpar (both meaning ‘above’, ‘over’ or ‘up‘), probably through Proto-Indo-European.
