Well, it's strange my head is rememberin'
how the airplane flying overhead
looks so effortless, but I cannot guess
why it lingers in my mind...
evening after this, I'm a crying mess
and to be stronger now my only wish
so I can finally have the bravery,
so I can reach on up to the sky...
this cruel fate engraving
it's carved into the stone
hoping it reveals itself all to me and then I will
know just where to go...
this moment, this moment... I know that I can breathe
hanging on a feeling... believe in
my only meaning!
I hear a voice a' calling, telling me to risk it
asking if I have been going the distance
singing with a passion that I cannot deny!
my eyes are swollen with the tears that i've been crying
but, to the rest of the world, ever smiling
singing for the courage that I'm dying to show!
with my peace sign up when I say goodbye,
write a story of a hero!

I didn't want to say I protected you
and you were never weak, I'm number two
you were stronger than I have ever been
and you mean more to me than you know
I have changed myself since the day i yelled
about how you go on by yourself
so if you have to laugh, I should tell you that
I'm afraid that I'm all alone
I'm kicking, I'm biting... impossible to breathe
going down below the depths of my troubled head,
and i can fell my stomach heave
I see it, I need it - it calm the blood that beats
if only I could touch it, enough that it's mine for keeping!
I hear a voice a' calling, telling me to risk it
asking if I have been going the distance
singing with a passion that I cannot deny!
my eyes are swollen with the tears that i've been crying
but, to the rest of the world, ever smiling
singing for the courage that I'm dying to show!
with my peace sign up when I say goodbye,
write a story of a hero!

those days getting rowdy, getting bloody I was
all scraped, getting worn and getting dirty now I...
hear you talking and it all is coming back
I see it in my mind - my memories revived
I could apologize for sleeping chrysalis and
with every passing night I wish that I was leaving it and -
I swear that I'll be back again!

I hear a voice a' calling, telling me to risk it
asking if I have been going the distance
singing with a passion that I cannot deny!
my eyes are swollen with the tears that i've been crying
but, to the rest of the world, ever smiling
singing for the courage that I'm dying to show!
with my peace sign up when I say goodbye,
write a story of a hero!