Heroes

And you, you will be queen Though nothing, will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be heroes, just for one day
 * I, I will be king

And you, you can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're sinners, and that is a fact Yes we're sinners, and that is that
 * [Verse 1]

Though nothing, will keep us together We could steal time, just for one day We can be heroes, forever and ever What d'you say?
 * [Refrain]

I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
 * [Verse 2]

Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh we can be heroes, just for one day
 * [Refrain]

I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing, will drive them away We can be heroes, just for one day We can be us, just for one day
 * [Chorus]

I, I can remember (I remember) Standing, by the wall (by the wall) And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads) And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
 * [Verse 3]

And the shame, was on the their side Oh we can beat them, forever and ever Then we could be heroes, just for one day We can be heroes We can be heroes We can be heroes, just for one day We can be heroes
 * [Refrain]

We're nothing, and nothing will help us Maybe we're lying, then you better not say But we could be safer, just for one day Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh, just for one day
 * [Outro]

Heroes
Heroism as the antidote to evil, by promoting the heroic imagination, especially in our kids, in our educational system. We want kids to think, "I'm a hero in waiting, waiting for the right situation to come along, and I will act heroically. My whole life, I'm now going to focus away from evil -- that I've been in since I was a kid."

Banality of heroism. It's ordinary people who do heroic deeds. It's the counterpoint to Hannah Arendt's "Banality of Evil." Our traditional societal heroes are wrong, because they are the exceptions. They organize their life around this. That's why we know their names. Our kids' heroes are also wrong models for them, because they have supernatural talents.

We want our kids to realize most heroes are everyday people, and the heroic act is unusual. Joe Darby was the one that stopped the abuses at Abu Ghraib, because when he saw those images, he turned them over to a senior investigating officer. He was a low-level private, and that stopped it. Was he a hero? No. They had to put him in hiding, because people wanted to kill him, and then his mother and his wife. For three years, they were in hiding.