Dar Williams All My Heroes Are Dead Lyrics

All My Heroes Are Dead Lyrics




You gotta admit Life magazine made 1968 look great,
My father said it
sucked, everybody died.
All the troops you couldn't save, no one knew how to
be brave,
He said sometimes you were afraid to turn your radio on. 
It was
enough to make you quit that peacenick scene. 
Well I heard about leaders,
yeah I hear they're no longer around
Cause peace was abandoned, and bravery
hanged in his town.
And they passed down a sentence 
For building on the
beauty of some dream. 

All my heroes are dead, I got them in my head,
saying
Never again, never a war, no more fighting.
So I'll stay true to
them, and they'll come home again,
I'll carry the light, follow the dream,
I'll remember. 

The '68 convention was a singing the times they are
a-changing,
Well I guess they a-changed back.
Oh I miss those peaceful
folk, love and humor when they spoke, hey
Phil Ochs you still sound great,
should've stuck around to hear it.

They say that compact disc makes
songs come true.
But Phil I never expected that I'd miss you like a
friend,
Cause I never expected that we would be marching again.
And the
soldiers of peace would tumble from this life as in a war.

All my heroes
are dead, and all the books I read, 
Said "This is greed, this is wrong,
fight your war at home".
So I'll stay true to them, and they'll come
home again,
I'll carry the light, follow the dream, I'll remember.


So back to the present passion, romance, love, or simply put a lack
thereof.
Shall we go on?
I don't take it personally, it's our post-modern
history, 
You know since Nixon was impeached it's just been hard to
commit,
So we cast our allegance left and right.
But I always believed
that our souls would come through.
So I never expected that you'd take her
home with you.
And I never detected, how hardened and not sorry you could
be. 
Don't you know?

All our heroes are dead, we got ourselves
instead. 
And oh my friend, all your lies, they won't do you.
You gotta
stay true to them, and they'll come home again,
I miss them too, I miss them
too, you know I miss them 
More than I love you.