Rush Lyrics

Album: Different Stages

Nobody's Hero Lyrics

I knew he was different in his sexuality

 I went to his parties as a straight minority

 It never seemed a threat to my masculinity

 He only introduced me to a wider reality

 As the years went by, we drifted apart

 When I heard that he was gone

 I felt a shadow cross my heart

 

 But he's nobody's hero

 Saves a drowning child

 Cures a wasting disease

 Hero...lands the crippled airplane

 Solves great mysteries

 Hero...not the handsome actor

 Who plays a hero's role

 Hero...not the glamour girl

 Who'd love to sell her soul

 If anybody's buying

 Nobody's hero

 

 I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family

 All their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality

 They try to carry on, try to bear the agony

 Try to hold some faith in the goodness of humanity

 As the years went by, we drifted apart

 When I heard that she was gone

 I felt a shadow cross my heart

 

 But she's nobody's hero

 Is the voice of reason against the howling mob

 Hero...is the pride of purpose

 In the unrewarding job

 Hero...not the champion player

 Who plays the perfect game

 Hero...not the glamour boy

 Who loves to sell his name

 Everybody's buying 

 Nobody's hero

 

 As the years went by, we drifted apart

 When I heard that you were gone

 I felt a shadow cross my heart

 

 But he's nobody's hero

 Saves a drowning child

 Cures a wasting disease

 Hero...lands the crippled airplane

 Solves great mysteries

 Hero...not the handsome actor

 Who plays a hero's role

 Hero...not the glamour girl

 Who'd love to sell her soul

 If anybody's buying

 Nobody's hero

 

 Hero