Genre: Blues, Jazz, Folk, Pop
Lyric:
I played the stupid games and followed all the rules
I followed leaders even when they were clearly fools
Held the door, self forswore, made use of all the tools
Still the same ol patsy, circumstance ridicules
If everyone is the hero of their own story
Why is it my tale is just so goddamned gory?
Why so many tears and no one’s ever sorry?
They get diamonds but I’m stuck in the quarry
The only hero I know is the one I’ve never known
Framed by negative space no place it could have grown
Within me is no hero, no epic warrior without bounds
Within me just a zero, absence of sights and sounds
Within me antihero, fractured life just compounds
Life is a deep quarry and I will make my rounds
I’ve had brighter days, though few and far between
Perspective does not sway, though at times it may lean
And hope cannot allay, dreams cannot change the scene
No thoughts to hold at bay, nothing stops the careen
I hear they always say, it’s all about perspective
Conveniently cross-way, they’re far from objective
There is no hero found here in my life’s story
Just this human heart and mind painted red and gory
Just the memory of the tears and how no one’s ever sorry
Spade in hand and light on head, once more into the quarry
The only hero I know is the one I’ve never known
Every day digging deeper, getting closer to the bone
Perhaps even in negative space, a hero can be shown
Deep within life’s quarry, I’ll carve and sit my throne
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