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He never, ever saw it
Coming at all
He never, ever saw it
Coming at all
He never, ever saw it
Coming at all
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
(Vrrr)
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it a-a-all
Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
(Vrrr)
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it a-a-all
Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it a-a-all
All
All
All
All
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all
Coming at all
He never, ever saw it
Coming at all
He never, ever saw it
Coming at all
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
(Vrrr)
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it a-a-all
Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
(Vrrr)
Hey, open wide, here comes
Original sin
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it a-a-all
Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
It's alright, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right, it's al-
Right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it a-a-all
All
All
All
All
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all, all
All, all, all, all
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"He never ever saw it, coming at all" - quite obvious, his wife cheats and he never saw it coming, never thought she would do it etc.
"And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting"
They're talking to each other, trying to work it out or whatever but they actually don't meet/understand each other/ agree with each other etc.
"And we're trying to be faithful, but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating" - again, a breakdown in the relationship
"I'm the hero of the story, don't need to be saved"
sounds to me like the "damsel in distress" or the heroine in every story usually gets saved by the hero, but if she's the hero of the story then obviously, she doesn't need to be saved!
Which makes me think about the underlying meaning why she titled it hero...
So this song is about the universal internal conflict between looking for the right thing and looking for pleasure. We kind of want pleasure above all, but we always have to confront our moral before enyoing.
I think one key to understand this song is that some words repeat over and over, while others elaborate a little more about moral judgement and pleasure. So the elaborating words where she says "we don't want it, we want pleasure" resumes and explains the meaning of the song beautifuly, the following words about television and "meetings" talk about a concrete representation of that conflict, and words about faitful are more about internal moral faith as in religion than just some sexual relationship.
The words that repeat a lot make for concrete symbols of the meaning of this song while they double as some kind of internal dialogue. Particularly "it's all right" and "No one's got it all" is like saying "It (life) is okay, even if we don't have this(desire or the capacity of doing right)"
Maybe it's an optimistic song, as they tend to be. But the important part is that it is a song about the conflict between the pleasure in ignorance of right and wrong, and moral conscience. The song is called hero because it plays with the religious metaphore: it is said that Yawe made alliances with human to save them from that original sin, but the hero of the story may be protagonist over the alliance and doesnt need to be saved. So the final words about hero maybe talking about some kind of peace between the conflict I say; I don't know. Maybe there is the optimistic part one may see in this song.
The orgininal sin is "where problems started" in many religions, as if knowing right and wrong and thus being capable of both is the center of human suffering. So, at the end, I get this as a song about how complicate human life is and resolutions about it.
Out of those concrete references, I think they say how unavoidable is moral conscience.
The song may be called hero also because of the strong moral obligation everyone has of always acting strictly according to their conciense. "Do always good" and that sort of thing, just like the sterotypical hero would.
it's alright it's alright it's alright it's alright.
i sing this to myself sometimes.
the story is my life. once im dead, there is no more story. all the people around me are merely characters. because everything i see is from my point of view, that must make me the hero. therefore whatever i do will lead to the end of the story. the conclusion may be a peaceful death in an old age home.
or hanging yourself as a teenager.
either ending, is the end of the story, and is therefore intended.
people assume that the kid that overdosed is in the wrong and needed help. but that is from our stories point of view, his story ended with an overdose, he was the hero in it because it was from his point of view. therefore, the events prior to it were what the hero was meant to do, and as such he does not need to be saved. because this is the conclusion.
at the end of a third-person story it goes 'and paul died. and jane was terribly distraught'
at the conclusion of a first person story (our lives) it goes 'i died.'
there is nothing after, so who's to say it was the wrong thing.
i feel like im not explaining myself properly.
its generally along the lines of what other people said i guess.
the trouble comes in when you see the other people in your life as merely characters in your story, and therefore have no compassion for them after your story has ended.
yeah, definitely does not make a whole heap of sense to me, but this is what you get a 1.30am.