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Heroes Lyrics
Artist: David Bowie
Heroes
David Bowie
Changes Bowie
I
I will be king
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
And you
You can be mean
And I
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers
And that is that
Though nothing
Will keep us together
We could steal time
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
For ever and ever
What d'you say
I
I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim
Though nothing
Will keep us together
We can beat them
For ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes
Just for one day
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
I
I can remember
Standing
By the wall
And the guns
Shot above our heads
And we kissed
As though nothing could fall
And the shame
Was on the other side
Oh we can beat them
For ever and ever
Then we can 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
We're nothing
And nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying
Then you better not stay
But we could be safer
Just for one day
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Comments/Interpretations
heroooooeeeeeeeeesssssssss
mi favorita
What a great song. This song means so much to me... I don't want to know where I'd be today if this wasn't around.
brill
Precious song, unbelievably profound and hopeful. Makes me wonder what it is to really be in love, to be so much dazed as to want and be inspired to write such a song. Thanks David.
Semplicemente immensa.
Bowie sucks. He's the perfect shit-eater. His mother sucks long dicks and yours too.
...just for one day...
LOL
Legend
We can be Heroes
To 7/8/2008 poster: It takes one to know one. Anyway, this is my favorite Bowie song.
Beautiful song
he who does not loveth david bowie has no soul
bowie, enos muse or visa versa, thank you either. way-what d'you say
bowie, enos muse or visa versa, thank you either way. -what d'you say
great david!!!you're surely a heroo
What a beautiful song! LOVEEE THIIISSS SOONG SOOOOOOO MUUCHH!!! LOVE BOOWIEE SOO MUCCHHH
que canción tan increible...es tanto...gracias david
Words can't say how David can make me dream. "That is a fact".. "Yes, we're lovers . . .. and that is that."
So in love
fantastic song! Thx for the Lyrics! :-*
I love this beautiful song ;-* thx
only for romantic lovers
Omg if you wanna listen to the most kick ass version of this song check out Ramstein and Apocalyptica's "Helden"!!!
sukkiatemi il pisello
i'm afraid i made a terrible mistake...
good song!!
david bowie's my hero :)
Wuff mau see christiane f.
DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS
top quality song
What a masterpiece!! am simply speechless !!
@Frankie R! Thanks a lot for the explanation.
Can't say too many good things about Bowie. He was my only Icon as a child, back in the days of Ziggy and as I grow older I keep rediscovering his genius. As long as I live I hope to learn more about his art, and more and more and more. On closer inspection he never fails to leave me in a state of wonder and awe. He's a super freaky cosmic angel sent to shake us up. Long live Bowie!! Nobby Nutkins, you need to get a grip mate, life's too short.
david bowie's work is pure genius....cant live w/o this man
Linda
bowie was and still is the best artist,from the 70s 80s
Wonderful song, and Frankie R, thanks for the explanation
thanks david!
All I can say is this is one of the songs I want played at my funeral. The song is inspirational.
we can be heroes just for one day. (L)
it is the song that Christiane F's best. I love it so much
plain'n'simple: Fantastic!
the best bowie song ever !
what a great song!
Our friend just told us he thought the lyrics read 'dolphins can sing'. ha ha ha he he ah!
Frankie R> Thank you so much for the background! The song just became more awesome!!
Any one of us can be heroes just for one day. The emergency workers on 9/11 we're heroes just for one day. Now some people rescuing others alive in Haiti are also heroes.
i think the song is about HEROin.. read the lyrics again and think he's singin about the drugs,, quite fits in..
No, he's not. He lived at Berlin at the time and he talks about two lovers (he thought they were) who would exchange stares from the opposite sides of the Wall every day.
David Bowie is the greatest artist ever!
bowie was in a studio in berlin, and needed one more song for the album, when, of a sudden, he looked out the window and saw a young man, and a young woman, holding hands, speaking to each other on opposite sides of the berlin wall. the image haunted him. need i say more?
I enjoyed working on Ashes to Ashes and this was the best song to end it with
the couple bowie was writing about was his producer tony visconti and his mistress (at the time visconti was married). bowie made up the story about the couple outside the window.
Philip you are entirely right. It was the perfect way to end Ashes and is perfect for Gene and Alex... I cried like a baby... Thanks for all the hard work it was amazing!
My favourite song ever. So beautiful.
one of my lifetime favourites
I'm the greatest Peter Gabriel's fan, but I have to admit that Peter's symphonic version of "Heroes" is very far from the perfect beauty of the original...
a rreeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllllll HEROOOO
The version by The Wallflowers is a lot better, take a listen to it.
The Godfather of Punk!
el mejor artista de todos los tiempos y la mejor cancion en la hitoria BOWIE: YOU'RE MY HERO
great song. i like when apocalyptica and til linden do this song in german. Helden, it's awesome.
fantastic song for all heros ....well done guys.
Oasis cover totally kicks david's ass!!!! OASIS MAKE THIS SONG ONE OF THE BEST IN HISTORY!!!
Italiathinker, Shit? Probably it's you who is a shit
wait: i think i prefer to belive he wrote it for a couple who would meet everyday through the berlin wall than to know it was written for the mistress of visconti :S. i don't know if any of you will agree, but that's just the way i see it
A song of profound loneliness, about a fantasy, about what can never be. About Loss and opression, the cry of a lonely person with no recourse and no possible remedy, except in his imagination.
so good
i like very much tose songs and music. i agree with everyone with love from gisela baert brussels = belgium.
This song always makes me cry. I listened to it 20 minutes ago and at the end of it I could barely breathe and there was snot running down my neck. He sings it with such powerful emotion that it just gets too much for me to handle without exploding!! This is a masterpiece.
such a beautiful song I agree with emily MASERPIECE well done mister david bowie
Loved this song on Moulin Rouge!
Your lyrics are in the wrong order
They played this song at the end of the documentary "The Cove"... perfect. Made me love the song even more.
It is very deep thinking song , that's why i love this song.
to be honest i can,t stand bowie but the older i,m gettin the more i begin to understand his music and this perticular song is genius
The lyrics work on many levels and that's the beauty of it. It's about Visconti and his lover. It's about any two lovers. It's about the triumph of love over oppression. And, by the way, the King and Queen are not necessarily male and female.
I like the acoustic live version dedicated to the boys and girls club. The electric guitar comes in later and is so sweet... awesome sustained notes!
It 's about the expression of true love that cannot be fully shown due to unfortunate circumstances.End of.It makes me feel physically sick with sadness.
Search for the Peter Gabriel cover from the Scratch My Back album... Add another dimension to this already excellent song.
Very moving for all those GB athletes being presented with medals to this track. Has it been re-released?
I Think RAY on 2/3/12, hit it right on the nose! Can't imagine life without BOWIE!
These lyrics are so wrong it's not funny. someones been watching too much moulin rouge me thinks...
that song was the last hope for me to take the girl i would die for , i wanna be hero and tell the story to our kids
musical genius. I always have to laugh tho when I think of how avril lavigne mispronounced his name when she read it at the music awards ceremony. c'mon avril.. really??
I'm feeling Infinite!!!!!
We are all heroes.
The tunnel song.....
"and in this moment, i swear we are infinite...∞" Tunnel Song (:
Heroes,under the Velvet Underground with John Cale influence.
Moving song. I have to admit I would've never listened to Bowir if it weren't for Perks. I'm glad I did. My generation (now) has no soul in its music. Unless you count Brittany.
Great song, brings me to tears every time i hear it. It is one of my four favourite bowie songs, the others are space oddity, ashes to ashes, and scary monsters and supercreeps.
This song show us the future in the past.
when i was younger some of my friends hit me in the head with a stick in the forest and i went to sleep because i wanted them to go away and when i woke up i was in my room and my mom was yelling at me asking why i had stabbed my sister with my dads car keys and i looked in my hand and the keys were there and i jsut closed my eyes and when i opened them i was lying in the forest and it was dark so i walked and walked til i saw a light through the trees it was an amusement park and noone was there and david bowies heroes was playing there and i got onto a floating duck and travelled along a river and at the rivers mouth into the ocean was a city and it was bright and full of shining color and i stepped onto its streets and the fairies there made me king and 40 years later i lay dieing and my mother came to my bed and said im sorry son im sorry that you became the way you did
We can be Heroes`````
I loooove this Song, it is like a drug!
His a Shemale
My mom kissed David Bowie in the 70's.
Thank you David Bowie for all the wonderful gifts you gave us! Rest in Peace...
Love this song! but damn this is going to be hard to memorize.
Popcorn!!!!!
Jeg er godt li tis
This is my favorite Bowie song. Thanks, Bowie.
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