Lyrics
<b><span style="font-size: large">Hero </span></b><br />
Words and music by Jonathan David Eckberg <br />
Copyright 2007 JDE Music<br />
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You can almost see his face<br />
Set with just a trace<br />
Knowing not what lies along his tale<br />
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Still he ran to add his name<br />
When the first chance he had came<br />
And proudly marched his way on down that trail<br />
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O’re the water he would cross<br />
With an innocence soon lost<br />
He’d witness more than any eye should see<br />
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But when that moment did arrive<br />
All the courage penned inside<br />
Was bursting forth to break the hero free<br />
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<i>He said, “I know you don’t understand,<br />
I did no more than any other man.”<br />
He said, “I know you can’t understand,<br />
I did no more than any other man…”</i><br />
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From the farm he called his home<br />
To this soil not his own<br />
He made his way through the countryside of war<br />
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When duty called to choice<br />
He answered strong in voice<br />
With endeavors that could never ask for more<br />
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<i>He said, “I know you don’t understand,<br />
I did no more than any other man.”<br />
He said, “I know you can’t understand,<br />
I did no more than any other man…”<br />
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The years they swiftly fade<br />
With a family and a trade<br />
He’d never breathe a word about that day<br />
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But that’s the way it goes<br />
With heroes, I suppose<br />
They never claim the valor they display<br />
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<i>He said, “I know you don’t understand,<br />
I did no more than any other man.”<br />
He said, “I know you can’t understand,<br />
I did no more than any other man…”<br />
But you’re not any other man.</i><br />
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Produced and recorded by Jonathan David Eckberg, vocal by Ron Eckberg<br />
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