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About this song (Last.fm)
"My Hero" is the third single from the Foo Fighters' second album The Colour and the Shape.
In a 1999 interview, lead vocalist and song co-writer Dave Grohl said that the song is "about heroes that are ordinary" and added that he looks up to everyday people more than he looks up to celebrities.
Released in January 1998, the song peaked at number six on the US Billboard Alternative Songs charts and is considered a Foo Fighters classic and a staple at the band's concerts. Read more on Last.fm.
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My Hero Lyrics
Grohl has claimed he didn’t have any rockstar rolemodels growing up. This song is a tribute to those he did look up to: the everyday people.… Read More
[Verse 1]
Too alarming now to talk about
Take your pictures down and shake it out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around
[Chorus]
There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary
[Verse 2]
Don't the best of them bleed it out
While the rest of them peter out?
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around
[Chorus]
There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary
[Bridge]
Kudos, my hero
Leaving all the best
You know my hero
The one that's on
[Chorus]
There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary
There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary
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