No Ordinary Hero - The Boxtones

I watched you run back, you never learn, you never learn,

No forever burned

But I watched you turn back, right near the end, to help a friend

Oh forever earned

Stood on the corner of indecision and action taking my time

Is it worth it to be someone living in the spotlight?

I’d like to think so, I’d like to be so, so I’ll try

To be a hero, no zero, no weirdo, no spending time silently waiting in line for

my creamy

cappuccino, can you spell my name?

Or hear me complain?

hmmm

As everybody wants to try, mostly though our alibi

Is that we didn’t have the time

To pick ourselves up off the ground, take another look around

At extra ordinary times and extra ordinary lives

I watched you run back, you never learn, you never learn,

No forever burned

But I watched you turn back, right near the end, to help a friend

‘Cause we are only looking for a hero

Trying to find a hero, to keep us safe and sound

We are only looking for a hero

Trying to find a hero, to keep us safe and sound

Looking for a hero, trying to find a superhero,

No ordinary hero, to save us from ourselves

Never judged a book by it’s cover from day one,

A bystander?

Or some joker staring straight at the sun?

Questionably?

Super heroically?

Let’s see

As he comes up with all these tall tales of super powered villains and henchmen

all out to get him

for some reason that escapes him, but he knows damn well what he’s done to them

As everybody mostly lies, the reason is we barely try

And lead our ordinary lives

But dig a little deeper down, and take another look around,

‘Cause these aren’t ordinary times and yours aren’t ordinary lives

I watched you run back, you never learn, you never learn,

No forever burned

But I watched you turn back, right near the end, to help a friend

‘Cause we are only looking for a hero

Trying to find a hero, to keep us safe and sound

And we are only looking for a hero

Trying to find a hero, to keep us safe and sound

Looking for a hero, trying to find a superhero,

No ordinary hero, to keep us safe and sound

We are only looking for a hero, trying to find a superhero,

To save us from ourselves

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