Lyrics No Ordinary Hero - The Boxtones

No Ordinary Hero

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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