All My Heroes Are Dead lyrics

You gotta admit life magazine made 1968 look great,
My father said it sucked, everybody died.
All the troops you couldn`t save, no one knew how to be brave,
He said sometimes you were afraid to turn your radio on.
It was enough to make you quit that peacenick scene.
Well i heard about leaders, yeah i hear they`re no longer around
Cause peace was abandoned, and bravery hanged in his town.
And they passed down a sentence
For building on the beauty of some dream.

All my heroes are dead, i got them in my head, saying
Never again, never a war, no more fighting.
So i`ll stay true to them, and they`ll come home again,
I`ll carry the light, follow the dream, i`ll remember.

The `68 convention was a singing the times they are a-changing,
Well i guess they a-changed back.
Oh i miss those peaceful folk, love and humor when they spoke, hey
Phil ochs you still sound great, should`ve stuck around to hear it.

They say that compact disc makes songs come true.
But phil i never expected that i`d miss you like a friend,
Cause i never expected that we would be marching again.
And the soldiers of peace would tumble from this life as in a war.

All my heroes are dead, and all the books i read,
Said "this is greed, this is wrong, fight your war at home".
So i`ll stay true to them, and they`ll come home again,
I`ll carry the light, follow the dream, i`ll remember.

So back to the present passion, romance, love, or simply put a lack thereof.
Shall we go on?
I don`t take it personally, it`s our post-modern history,
You know since nixon was impeached it`s just been hard to commit,
So we cast our allegance left and right.
But i always believed that our souls would come through.
So i never expected that you`d take her home with you.
And i never detected, how hardened and not sorry you could be.
Don`t you know?

All our heroes are dead, we got ourselves instead.
And oh my friend, all your lies, they won`t do you.
You gotta stay true to them, and they`ll come home again,
I miss them too, i miss them too, you know i miss them
More than i love you.
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