Well I've been watching from the shadows

While you shook your fist at God

And screamed for all who listened

About how he's done you wrong

Why don't you put away your pistols

Climb down off your cross

Coz the battle's long been over

And the war is long since lost

And all those bridges that you've broken

Done burned down long ago

Coz you just had to be the superstar

Just had to be the hero

You just had to be the hero



Well I was there in the beginning

And I saw you choose your path

I watched your candle burning

And I knew it wouldn't last

Coz when experience comes knocking

Innocence will pass

And all that once seemed child-like

Is now ugly, crude and crass

And you wonder how you lost yourself

So many years ago

Coz you just had to be the superstar

Just had to be the hero

You just had to be the hero



Are you as angry on the inside

As you are on the surface

Been frontin' so long you've forgotten the purpose

Now there's a hole in the whole

Where your soul

Used to be



Well I've been watching from the shadows

While you shook your fist at God

And screamed for all who listened

About how he's done you wrong

Why don't you put away your pistols

Climb down off your cross

Coz the battle's long been over

And the war is long since lost

And now this old broken heart

Weeps for the one I used to know

Who just had to be the superstar

Just had to be the hero

You just had to be the hero

Why did you have to be the hero