Fallen Hero

They called him crazy on the streets

Young and angry, one bad seed

He wore the colors of his call

He'd be the baddest of them all

Shoot out came down in a police raid

By a Smith and Wesson thirty eight

At seventeen he met his fate

Fallen hero

What were you trying to prove?

Fallen hero

All you got was front page news

It's too late, tough break, read your epitaph

Fallen hero

How many others will follow in your path?

He had a lady, she cries alone

It would come to this, she's always known

She remembers how he used to say

"There ain't no future anyway"

Sirens echo in the night

Now his name is the battle cry

Of another boy who lives to die

Fallen hero

What were you trying to prove?

Fallen hero

All you got was front page news

It's too late tough break read your epitaph

Fallen hero

How many others will follow in your path?

And so the story lives on, of how his glory was won

And no lesson ever learned, of the tragedies to come

Yeah yea yea yea

Sirens echo in the night

Now his name is the battle cry

Of another boy who lives to die

Fallen hero

What were you trying to prove?

Fallen hero

All you got was front page news

It's too late, tough break read your epitaph

Fallen hero

How many others will follow?

Yeah yea

Fallen hero

What were you trying to prove?

Fallen hero

All you got was front page news

It's too late, tough break read your epitaph

Fallen hero

How many others

Fallen hero

Come and see now

Fallen hero

All you got was front page news

Fallen hero

How could she know

Fallen hero

Stay down someday

Fallen hero

Fallen hero

Fallen hero