The story of the original Song called "Superman" -- believing in the power of True Love

Gregory Davis
December 23, 2010

I have been encouraged by friends to write a bit about my song "Superman". At the risk of being "a bit" self serving I will oblige. I am really not one who likes to "go on" about his art, but if asked I will, so here goes:

The song came to me in a very vivid dream that I had one night. It was written about a spiritual daughter. She was having some serious problems in her life (spiritually) so I was very much caught up with concern for her. This dream was about a spiritual battle that I fought, for her sake. In the dream I was confronted with serious evil -- and was naturally very fearful. But I remembered True Father's words (I was lucid in the dream) "the power of True Love can over come all evil" -- so I went forward boldly with confidence that I had "True Love" and there fore nothing would happen to me. And it didn't. I was able to "rescue" her from this "spiritual darkness".

I woke up at about 4 am and the words just came like lightening. My heart was racing and I could barely catch my breath. I wrote all of them (the words) down in a few minutes. There was no melody given. Just the simple phrasing. I kept them like a prayer.

I carried these around with me for some years, always thinking about how it would sound. I kind of liked the "blues groove" and always wanted to write an "upbeat" blues song. I liked the blues music (when I was in college I played with a guy who was a "Chicago Blues" guy--if you know Chicago Blues you understand) but I didn't like the fact that it was always so sad and "down". And in those days in the movement--you didn't play the blues.

So it came to pass, that one day I was a student at UTS and I was sitting in the hallway above the dining room with another brother, Hiroshi Suzuki, and we were just jamming around with some guitars. I thought about my "blues song" and asked him to play a certain groove and just started singing the words that had come to me years ago in my dream. And it just flowed.

We were really getting in to it--he was intuitively picking up my energy and I was belting -- YEA, BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF TRUE AND YOU CAN BE A REAL MAN! The energy was amazing! Before long the hall was packed with bros and sis. listening in. We knew something happened at that moment. We had the opportunity to record a demo of the song a few months later. And it has become a favorite of many of my friends from around the world. It was put on one of my first solo CD's called--Superman.

So that's it... that's the story. And it is still true. Believe in the Power of True Love.