
Date of issue: 31.12.2008
Record label: Spring House
Song language: English
Closer To Home |
He’s 68 and brings my morning paper |
Each day while it’s dark |
Then hustles off to greet folks |
At the Highway 9 Walmart |
His daughter moved back home last year |
With their two boys, twelve and ten |
Then she skipped town and left him |
And his wife to care for them |
It used to be Superman |
Johnny Bench and then George Jones |
But lately I’ve been finding |
All my heroes closer to home |
Every time I see a squad car |
Or pass a firehouse |
I think of brave hearts behind badges |
Ready when a call goes out |
Seems since 9/11 |
It’s been on my mind |
How they wake up every morning |
And put their lives on the line |
It used to be Superman |
Johnny Bench and then George Jones |
But lately I’ve been finding |
All my heroes closer to home |
I’ve got a life I’m loving |
Got some children of my own |
And some nights I tuck them in and stand there |
In the dark alone |
And I think back on my childhood |
And the sweet days that I had |
Now I see the sacrifice it took |
From my mum and dad |
It used to be Superman |
Johnny Bench and then George Jones |
But lately I’ve been finding |
All my heroes closer to home |
But lately I’ve been finding |
All my heroes closer to home |
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