songs: Heroes Die

I wrote this song about a friend of mine who I used to play in a band with. He was an older guy, and I had looked up to him as a role model. Over the course of time, though, I began to see more and more of his vices and became disillusioned. Its a bit funny to think about now, so many years later.

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Maybe you're a tree who's leaves stay
Or maybe you go where the wind blows
All I know is I'm right either way

Every word you spoke was subtle
So I never gave you one rebuttal
'Cause somehow I knew you
Meant what you said...

[b]
It's like I spoke to you
It's like you spoke to me
You know we need each other
These things we built could
Last forever

[c]
Sometimes,
We watch our heroes die
And we don't know why
We don't know why they left us so young
Sometimes,
We watch our mirrors cry
And we don't know why
We don't know why they left us undone.

I've learned that I can live without you
I've learned that there are things about you
That I knew
That I chose to hold in

I've seen your eyes when they're glassed over
Your charcoaled lungs, malignant fire
Desire keeps us holding on tight

[b]
[c]

I am now everything good that you did
I'm tossing out all of the things you kept hid
Like the scars on your knuckles
The way that you chuckled
When the bottle made way for it

[c]...

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