Just for One Day (We Could Be Us)
Heroes written by David Bowie and Brian Eno
Heroes Lyrics
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 dayAnd 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 thatThough 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, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be heroes, just for one dayI, 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 dayI, 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)
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be heroes, just for one dayWe can be heroes
We can be heroes
We can be heroes
Just for one day
We can be heroesWe'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
The hero problem: always giving up the self for others. The needs and wants of the many outweigh the quiet cries of the one.
We all love a hero’s story because we don’t have what it takes to accept the ‘one day’. We want it all. And the sooner the better.
But that’s the Everyman. We don’t read about Clark Kent, or Peter Parker except in the context to understand what their alter ego’s service to their fellow man requires of them.
I am decompressing with an episode of Firefly (2002) and marveling at captain Malcom Reynolds’ steadfast loyalty to his crew, even at great personal cost to himself. Heroic.
The captain was a man of honor in a den of thieves.
Heroes are born of different needs and callings. At the core of Bowie and Eno’s effort is an equal purity of desire, the case of Heroes—love and longing, an emotional anthem of fleeting triumph, romantic defiance, and yearning hope in the face of adversity.
I love in ‘Heroes’ that the same tidal forces that draw them together, keep them apart. Inconceivable power—that the lovers alternately thrill in and suffer from.
Stealing time, swimming as dolphins, he the king and she his queen—oh, the possibilities if not for the world of the real. And so this song—this anthem—is all the lovers have. It is fleeting and effervescent, its power unmanageable. And every time it vibrates out of his turntable he thinks of her there in the shadows and his crushing love for her.
Would you do it again? Indulge in the power and experience? Even though you knew it was temporary, would you throw your ignorant heart into those lustful flames again just for one moment? Just for one day?
Would you kiss, feeling nothing could fall? And assuage the shame on the other side, trying to beat them, for ever and ever…
Love, love will keep us together…
love, love will tear us apart.
I think I need sleep. I’m positively delirious!
Lovers Lunch
A little plastic sword
Is all it took to julienne
My heart in ribbons
This GEM came today. I FINALLY have a physical copy. I didn't realize it was a first edition printed in 1925 with a gift inscription dated 1930. I simply ADORE old books. How can I read this treasure!!?!
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