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Rt 23
by bennash - 10/08/24 02:29 PM
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Extinct
by bennash - 10/06/24 11:06 AM
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Not Bad
by David Gill - 10/04/24 03:21 PM
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Heroes of my Youth Robert George ©2024
I useta listen to his albums
Thinking he was king
I can’t believe how dumb I was
That guy can’t even sing
All those records on my shelf
All those posters on my wall
I was blinded by ev’ry superstar
Just to find how lame they really are
Cos here’s the bitter truth,
The heroes of my youth
Weren’t heroes at all
I walked their walk and rocked their rock
Back when I was seventeen
But all their glamor and their glory
Was built by magazines
All those records on my shelf
All those posters on my wall
I was blinded by ev’ry superstar
Just to find how lame they really are
Cos here’s the honest truth,
The heroes of my youth
Weren’t heroes at all
Weren’t heroes at all
They say, “Imagine no possessions”
While grubbing ev’ry dollar
Ev’ry day that goes by,
I look up in the sky
And a carpenter stands taller
All those records on my shelf
All those posters on my wall
I was blinded by ev’ry superstar
Just to find how lame they really are
Cos here’s the bitter truth,
The heroes of my youth, the heroes of my youth
Weren’t heroes at all
No, they aren’t heroes at all
The carpenter stands taller…
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Hey Robert,
Very introspective, this one. I like the references to Elvis and The Beatles. Do I also note a hint of Aerosmith in there, too? ("walked their walk")
No matter. I sense the feelings conveyed in the lyric; that of disillusionment and betrayal while simultaneously leaning toward possible "faith" in a "new hero"?
Well written, sir.
Peace,
Dave
"Where there's a Gill, there's a way"
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thanks for both of your comments. I can't comment with my phone anymore. JPF is glitching and won't let me go-in. I rarely have access to our tabletop. ps Elvis was a great singer. 
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Elvis is still the original American Idol and woulda won.
I think what the lyric is saying is that the heroes we fabricate are flawed and superficial.
Yet WE make them who they are it's just as much our fault
I think there's a reason that most artists best music is there earlier stuff.
More genuine. Later in it's about money, early in, it's not.
Nice lyric. It's hard to write spiritual music that hooks a listener
Last edited by Fdemetrio; 10/07/24 07:56 AM.
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