Heroes chords by Jill Sobule
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Why are all our heroes so imperfect
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Why do they always
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bring me down
Why are all our heroes so imperfect
The statue in the park has
lost his crown
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Verse 2
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William Faulkner drunk an d depressed
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Dorothy Parker mean,
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drunk and depressed
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And that guy in Seven Years
in Tibet turned out to be a nazi
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The founding fathers all had slaves,
the explorers slaughtered the braves,
The Old Testament God
can be so petty
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Verse 3
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Paul Mc Cartney jealous of John,
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even more so now that he's gone
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Dylan was so mean to Donovan
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in that movie
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Pablo Picasso cruel to his wives
My favorite poets took their own lives
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Orson Welles peaked at
25, ballooned before our eyes
Verse 4
And he sold bad wine
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Why are all our heroes
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so imperfect
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Why do they always bring me
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down
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Verse 5
Heard Babe Ruth was full of malice
Lewis Carroll I'm sure did Alice
Plato in the cave with those
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very young boys
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T.S. Eliot hated Jews,
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FDR didn't save the Jews
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All the French joined the resistance
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after the war
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Raymond Chandler drunk
and depressed
Tennessee Williams drunk and depressed
Outro 1
I think I'll just get drunk and depressed.
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Heroes
Jill Sobule
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