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&Wesson 38

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, now 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

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

Fallen hero

Just 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

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(Fallen hero) Now his name is the battle cry

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