HEROES Lyrics

Each of us have heroes in our lives

And usually they're not even aware

Of how the strength they have helps to carry us

Through the times we didn't think that we could bear

And they show up in the most unlikely places

And if you're looking I can't tell you where to start

'Cause there's nothing extraordinary in their faces

You can only tell a hero by their heart

The little boy that sits beside me

Will never walk or talk or run

But when he reaches out to hold my hand

His smile says I love you mom

And he don't know how many times that smile

Has picked my spirits up

And he don't know how close how often

His mom's comes to giving up

He only knows the love he gives her

Somehow helps her to get by

Though that body may be broke

There's a hero there inside

Each of us have heroes in our lives

And usually they're not even aware

Of how the strength they have helps to carry us

Through the times we didn't think that we could bear

And they show up in the most unlikely places

And if you're looking I can't tell you where to start

'Cause there's nothing extraordinary in their faces

You can only tell a hero by their heart

The man that softly sleeps beside me

He could have turned his back and ran

But he chose to stick it out right here

And he loves me as I am

He's picked me up so many times when I was falling

And we keep working towards tomorrow side by side

And he'd be the very last one to admit it

But that man of mine's a hero in my eyes

Nearly fifty years of marriage

Lie between the two of them

But they're as in love at this moment

As they were a way back then

The world has never seen

Two stronger, steadfast parents

And to have grown up in their love

Well lucky me

They're an example of exactly

What we wish for in this life

They were my heroes then and they will always be

Each of us have heroes in our lives

And usually they're not even aware

Of how the strength they have helps to carry us

Through the times we didn't think that we could bear

And they show up in the most unlikely places

And if you're looking I can't tell you where to start

'Cause there's nothing extraordinary in their faces

You can only tell a hero by their heart

No there's nothing extraordinary in their faces

You can only tell a hero by their heart