Heroes

JILL SOBULE, ROBIN EATON

Why are all our heroes so imperfect
Why do they always bring me down
Why are all our heroes so imperfect
The statue in the park has lost his crown

William Faulkner drunk and depressed
Dorothy Parker mean, drunk and depressed
And that guy in Seven Years in Tibet turned out to be a nazi
The founding fathers all had slaves, the explorers slaughtered the braves,
The Old Testament God can be so petty

Paul McCartney jealous of John, even more so now that he's gone
Dylan was so mean to Donovan in that movie
Pablo Picasso cruel to his wives
My favorite poets took their own lives
Orson Welles peaked at 25, ballooned before our eyes
And he sold bad wine

Why are all our heroes so imperfect
Why do they always bring me down

Heard Babe Ruth was full of malice
Lewis Carroll I'm sure did Alice
Plato in the cave with those very young boys
T.S. Eliot hated Jews, FDR didn't save the Jews
All the French joined the resistance after the war
Raymond Chandler drunk and depressed
Tennessee Williams drunk and depressed
I think I'll just get drunk and depressed.

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Auf welchen Alben wurde das Lied “Heroes” von Jill Sobule veröffentlicht?
Jill Sobule hat das Lied auf den Alben “Pink Pearl” im Jahr 2000 und “I Never Learned to Swim: Jill Sobule 1990–2000” im Jahr 2001 veröffentlicht.
Wer hat das Lied “Heroes” von Jill Sobule komponiert?
Das Lied “Heroes” von Jill Sobule wurde von JILL SOBULE, ROBIN EATON komponiert.

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