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I Can’t Be Your Hero Today

This version of I Can’T Be Your Hero Today was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1970.

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It’s never been the same since you returned from dreamin’
With your nursery rhyme excuses and your picture postcards gleamin’
Tellin’ everyone who looks your way ’bout people and their sinnin’
While your left field verse is fallin’ in proportion to your winnin’

And I can’t be your hero today
I’m through with the simple games you play
It just might take some time to even up the score
But I can’t be your soldier home from war

And there you sit shining that there’s still hope for us
While nature holds the handcuffs on a Capricorn and Taurus
There’s nothing you can do or say to get me to your camp
Go fill up all your savings books and buy yourself a lamp

And I can’t be your hero today
Your wholesale price is much too high to pay
Bargain basement atmosphere is no way to sell love
And I can’t be your superman above

No I can’t be your hero today
That is all I really want to say
Go find a leading man who wants to play
But I can’t be your hero today

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The lyrics for I Can’T Be Your Hero Today are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Jimmy Buffett. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Can’T Be Your Hero Today have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for I Can’T Be Your Hero Today - Jimmy Buffett and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to I Can’T Be Your Hero Today by Jimmy Buffett in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Can’T Be Your Hero Today" means the words set to the music of I Can’T Be Your Hero Today, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Can’T Be Your Hero Today and the lyrics to I Can’T Be Your Hero Today are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Can’T Be Your Hero Today, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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