Amen - Heroes (Song)

Amen - Heroes
Is there any worth to be a hero
in a nation of styles and dilettantes?
We look up to the mannequin moneyed
and scorn the outcast and vagabonds.
Chorus.
Jesus, may we live the love you preach
Gandhi, may we give ourselves to peace
Martin, send your message across the land
Amen, the eternal common man.
Can we ever notice the heroes
until we've killed them for being sane
for they represented a danger
to the vanities of our fears and pains.
Chorus.
Now we build a statue to their honor
and have the temptation to make them saints,
but the blood of their passion is human
like the crimes committed in their names.
Chorus.
Still we're waiting for a savior
who will cast our enemies into hell,
but there are no saviors out there
and the enemy is in ourselves.
Chorus.
Jesus, may we live the love you preach
Gandhi, may we give ourselves to peace
Martin, send your message across the land
Amen, call me the common man.