Your Heroes Are Dead Lyrics

Read the complete lyrics to “Your Heroes Are Dead” by Project 86 from the album “Songs”. Browse more Project 86 songs or search for other tracks.

Artist Project 86

Album Songs

Length ~2 min read (303 words)

About “Your Heroes Are Dead”

Basically our so-called “heroes” are people we look up to, such as celebrities or politicians, but in the end turn out to be a bunch of fakes and phonies or whose morals may not be like that of someone like Mother Teresa. Example: Nixon and the Watergate scandal, Wesley Snipes and tax evasion, etc. And on the flip side of this coin, people who may have been heroes in a more literal since have died and are not there to save you/others anymore. Examples: Smedley Butler who was awarded the Medal of Honor twice, LtCol. “Mad Jack” Churchill who was known for carrying a longbow into battle in WW II, etc. The point P86 is trying to get across is that there are many “heroes” out there but in the end they are either phonies or are literally dead. There is only One true Hero, Jesus Christ.

[Verse 1]
There's something coming, and it's coming for you
The mob is restless looking for something new
You lead us here with an eternal promise
The gallows are calling for you to pay for this

[Pre-Chorus]
Now that we're left here on our own
There's nowhere left to turn
Who will see me through?

[Chorus]
Your heroes are dead
They were all in your head
When nothing is left we'll start again
Your heroes are dead
They were all in your head
When nothing is left we'll start again

[Verse 2]
What fitting ends to our fearless fathers
The cost of treason isn't paid in dollars
With nothing left, there is nothing to lose
We'll watch the city gates falling all around

[Pre-Chorus]
Now that we're left here on our own
There's nowhere left to turn
Who will see us through?

[Chorus]
Your heroes are dead
They were all in your head
When nothing is left we'll start again
Your heroes are dead
They were all in your head
When nothing is left we'll start again

[Interlude]

[Bridge]
You said I'd never make it
That I could only fail
But I'm the one who's standing
And what has happened to you?

[Instrumental Break]

[Pre-Chorus]
Now that we're left here on our own
There's nowhere left to turn
Who will see us through?
Now that we've said goodbye to you
We've started something new

[Chorus]
Your heroes are dead
They were all in your head
When nothing is left we'll start again
Your heroes are gone
They left with the dawn
Now it's just us, we'll carry on

[Outro Chorus]
Your heroes are dead
They were all in your head
When nothing is left we'll start again
Your heroes are gone
They left with the dawn
Now it's just us, we'll carry on