Well I met an old man yying on a train.
No more destination, no more pain.
Well he said one thing, before I graduate
"Never let your fear decide your fate."
[Chorus]
I say ya kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry.
No need to worry cuz, everybody will die.
Every day we just go, go, baby don't go.
Don't you worry we love you more than you know.
Well the sun one day will
Leave us all behind.
Unexplainable sightings
In the sky.
Well I hate to be
The one to ruin the night.
Right before your, right before your eyes.
[Chorus]
Well I met an old man dying on a train.
No more destination, no more pain.
Well he said one thing, before I graduate
"Never let your fear decide your fate."
[Chorus: x2]
No more destination, no more pain.
Well he said one thing, before I graduate
"Never let your fear decide your fate."
[Chorus]
I say ya kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry.
No need to worry cuz, everybody will die.
Every day we just go, go, baby don't go.
Don't you worry we love you more than you know.
Well the sun one day will
Leave us all behind.
Unexplainable sightings
In the sky.
Well I hate to be
The one to ruin the night.
Right before your, right before your eyes.
[Chorus]
Well I met an old man dying on a train.
No more destination, no more pain.
Well he said one thing, before I graduate
"Never let your fear decide your fate."
[Chorus: x2]
Lyrics submitted by LPodyssey07, edited by jakester88
Track duration: 02:59
"Kill Your Heroes" as written by Brian West, Aaron Bruno
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"He said one thing before I graduate, never let your fear decide your fate." I think its the old man telling him not to have any regrets because he did and of course the only thing you can truly regret is not taking any chance or doing anything.
"I say kill your heroes and fly,fly, baby dont cry." I think this means that don't let everybody try and save you because that way you wont be able to experience things yourself and you'll be held back. And that "fly" means you should do things out of the extraordinary or things that make you "fly"/lift you up and make you happy.
"No need to worry 'cause everybody will die." It means one day you will die so you shouldn't worry about it now, you're not the only one its going to happen to everyone has a time and a place and its just part of life.
"Everyday we just go, go baby dont go." This part kinda speaks to me as if hes talking to someone who has some depression and hes saying don't go as in possibly don't kill yourself because everyday people lose their lives so you should make the best of yours.
"Don't you worry we love you more than you know." Still talking to the depressed person say that they shouldn't doubt because they are not alone and that people do love them.
"He said one thing before I graduate, never let your fear decide your fate." I think its the old man telling him not to have any regrets because he did and of course the only thing you can truly regret is not taking any chance or doing anything.
"I say kill your heroes and fly, fly baby don't cry." I think this means that don't let everybody try and save you
My interpretation of the song is about not letting anything stop me from living and succeeding in life.
"Never let your fear decide your fate." is the line that stuck to me, that caught my attention. I needed to hear that.
"No need to worry cuz, everybody will die."
I hear him saying do not waste time worrying about anything because in the end we will all die.
"Everyday we just go, go..." I hear him saying to me everyday people die, we all do die and will die, so live life to the fullest, do not worry, and do not let fear decide and control your fate and future.
"Well the sun one day will
Leave us all behind.
Unexplainable sightings
In the sky.
Well I hate to be
The one to ruin the night.
Right before your, right before your eyes."
I hear him saying death will come, no matter how; the earth might end or your life will end, no matter what, death will come. He hates to tell it like it is before your eyes, but it is the fact and we must be aware and try our best to live and be something in life-something good in society.
The first verse is Awolnation's main idea, or point.
There are lines in the song I do not understand, such as "Kill your heroes"
and "Don't you worry we love you more than you know."
All I can do is guess and analyze.
It could be the band saying they love us, or people might love you more than you'll ever know, such as your family, friends, even acquaintances.
"Kill your heroes".....
Killing your heroes is a bad thing thus I think he is using it to mean something else-make your mistakes, you will make bad decisions but do not worry, do not let fear control your fate:
The video is funny, I love the fact that the song that makes me feel alive and does a lot for me has a video to make me laugh and smile.
The song's structure is so simple, but the lyrics are so powerful and even the rock music is powerful. This song is one of those songs that does not come out nowadays; it is a message, it makes you think, it makes people analyze the song's meaning, and it touched someone's life, mine.
"Well the sun one day will
Leave us all behind.
Unexplainable sightings
In the sky."
Because no matter what someday our very civilization might not be here, and that you might as well live up to your potential. As for the line "Kill your heroes" he uses that as a metaphor to describe people that you "follow" or look up to, and that you shouldn't spend your life acting like them and just be yourself. So when he says "kill" he doesn't mean to actually murder them, he just uses it metaphorically. So, the morale of this song is that you shouldn't be afraid of death because it happens to everyone, and fear shouldn't hold you back from doing what you love. The last thing I want to add (This is just my opinion) when he says the lines "baby don't cry.
No need to worry cause, everybody will die.
Every day we just go, go, baby don't go.
Don't you worry we love you more than you know."
I feel like he is talking to someone, like when he says "everyone dies" maybe the person he is talking to lost a family member of friend and that even if you lose someone important in your life that shouldn't hold you back and that no matter how bad you feel, there will always be someone out there that has feelings for you and knows what you're going through.
When the old man says he wants to tell him something before he "graduates" it is implying he is on to the next class, and he has gained a lifetime of experience as a soul, and he has realized that we are masters of our own reality, so don't let fear shape that reality.
Kill your heroes, and stop idolizing and worshiping people around you. We ARE ALL ONE, and they do not have anything more than you. Believe in yourself, you are your own hero.
We love you more than you know. WE love you, WE are one, WE are everyone together. All living things are bonded so profoundly and we are only beginning to understand.
Stop waiting for life, and live it.
Since I have learned about these theories, they are popping up everywhere. When I heard this song I had chills. Awolnation is here to help us achieve a higher consciousness. We wrote this song, it is a beacon for us to follow. We are talking to ourselves.
Pinch yourself and wake up, assume your power and use it as a force of love. LIFE IS SO AMAZING! No matter what happens, you have the power to control your reaction. Be positive, do positive, and love everything. Times are changing.
Rock on.
the old man on the train, i feel like, is the person giving the advice on how he lived, or how he should have lived?
Anyways, that was what i got from it, I think it is inspirational in a way.
Don't let fear decide what you should do. Be yourself. :)
(Well the sun one day will
Leave us all behind.
Unexplainable sightings
In the sky.
Well I hate to be
The one to ruin the night)
He's sorry to bring it up, since its kind of a bummer of a statement, but ultimately the sun will swallow up the earth, and everything will be extinguished and irrelevant. This realistic outlook is freeing, and it informs his perspective and the point he is trying to make.
This point is that you should strive to achieve your dreams and fulfill your passions, because in the long run there are no consequences to your decisions. (No need to worry, cuz everybody will die.)
At worst, you and everyone you know will be gone and forgotten forever, and best case scenario, you fulfill your full potential and leave some of a legacy. But either way, in the sense of the big picture, the pressure of failure is off. So just go for it. Kill your heroes. Disregard the bar set by the people you hold up on a pedestal, and in doing so remove the power they have over you. Achieve all you can, regardless of what those who came before you have achieved. The pressure imposed by the successes of others only serves to limit your potential if you dwell on it.
(I say ya kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry)
(Everyday we go, go, baby don't go,
Don't you worry we love you more than you know)
So fly, reach new heights, go your own way, and don't be upset by the change. But don't go so far that you're out of reach, and know that you always have a grounding in the care that our loved ones have for us.
As for the old man on the train:
(Well I met an old man dying on a train.
No more destination, no more pain.
Well he said one thing, before I graduate
"Never let your fear decide your fate.")
A dying old man has no hopes or aspirations, and has only the present and his past to reconcile himself with. He's not in pain, and he has nothing to gain or lose, regardless of what he says. So he can say with 20/20 hindsight and complete neutrality that you should never let your fear decide your fate. Don't be limited by what is challenging and alien, because everything is temporary. Including the suffering induced by taking risks that don't pay off.
Achieve your full potential, because no matter who you are, you truly have nothing to lose.
End of story.