Even Heroes Have To Die Lyrics - Brutalist Bricks - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

Well, didn't you look sharp with your boots 

When you met me on the path? Oh 

From two tone to Downtown Beirut 

But only halfway back, oh 

Stealing bits of wisdom from the shelf 

Turned prisons into prisms on the self 

Oh, oh 

And what do they know 

About the springtime of me and you, ooh 

Born in the midst of 

The long hot summer we lived through, ooh 

Did they see you run for every rhyme? 

Did we run for running out of time? 

Oh, oh 

When even heroes have to die 

No one lives forever, love 

No one's wise to try 

Oh, oh, oh, oh 

Oh, oh, oh, oh 

Oh 

And adding our own wisdom to the shelf 

Stealing bits of paper, we had health 

Oh, oh 

But working away 

Did we miss the passing of the time? Oh 

In your own flame you can wither 

Through your passions still outshine, oh 

Did you read the writing on the wall 

Prophesying a doom upon us all 

Oh, oh 

That even heroes have to die 

No one lives forever, love 

No one's wise to try 

Oh, oh, oh, oh 

Oh, oh, oh, oh 

Oh, oh, oh, oh 

Oh, oh, oh, oh 

But hidden in the writing on the wall 

Many are the beauties of the fall