Jill Sobule Heroes Lyrics

Heroes Lyrics

Why are all our heroes so imperfect
Why do they always bring me down
Why
are all our heroes so imperfect
The statue in the park has lost his
crown

William Faulkner drunk and depressed
Dorothy Parker mean, drunk
and depressed
And that guy in Seven Years in Tibet turned out to be a
nazi
The founding fathers all had slaves, the explorers slaughtered the
braves,
The Old Testament God can be so petty

Paul McCartney jealous
of John, even more so now that he's gone
Dylan was so mean to Donovan in
that movie
Pablo Picasso cruel to his wives
My favorite poets took their
own lives
Orson Welles peaked at 25, ballooned before our eyes
and he
sold bad wine

Heard Babe Ruth was full of malice
Lewis Carroll I'm
sure did Alice
Plato in the cave with those very young boys
TS Elliott
hated Jews, FDR didn't save the Jews
All the French joined the resistance
after the war
Raymond Chandler drunk and depressed
Tennessee Williams
drunk and depressed
Think I'll just get drunk and depressed.