Rock 'N' Roll Hero
Writers: Albert Hammond, Leo Sayer
Publisher(s):
Copyright © 2005 Albert Hammond Music. All rights reserved. Published by Albert Hammond Music (ASCAP), all rights on behalf of Albert Hammond Music administered by Music of Windswept (ASCAP), and Silverbird Songs Ltd / Hornall Brothers Music Ltd.
Albert Hammond (writer, recording artist): It's about everybody in the world because, when you're a kid, everybody wants to be in rock 'n' roll and they want to make it ? but most of us don't. 99.9% don't. But we're all still heroes. Like the song says "I watch the drivers on the freeway and every one is going home to a family, that waits on their hero." That's true. It's hard to be the breadwinner.
Throughout all the lean years
The sad in between years
Living behind my gun
Tryin' to be a hero
The glare of the spotlight
Shone down on my life
Blinding my schoolboy dreams
A Rock 'n' Roll hero
Tonight I'm dancing in my backyard
Nobody here to share my dream
A dancer with a score of zero
But I'm beautiful
I'm so beautiful
I watch the drivers on the freeway
And everyone is going home
To a family
That waits on their hero
Tonight I'm watching on the small screen
A man forgotten, just like me
Fell from the stratosphere to zero
But he's beautiful
Much more beautiful
A Rock 'n' Roll hero
(Instrumental)
From out of the lean years
The sad in between years
Hiding behind my gun
A Rock 'n' Roll hero
