
Show Me the Hero
Recorded October 1999
Release history
Also known as
Meetings with Remarkable Men (Show Me the Hero)
Credits
- Written by Harvey Danger, © But Mom I Love Music (ASCAP)/Famous Music
- Aaron: bass
- Jeff: guitars, piano, organ, theremin
- Sean: lead and backing vocals
- Evan: drums
Lyrics
I had a lovely brunch with Jesus Christ.
He said, “Two words about inanity: fundamental Christianity.”
The food was very nice,
but then He had to go and die for my sins and stick my ass with the check.
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”1
Go near an open window and that’ll be the end of me.
I bowed before the avatar.
He said, “The problem’s clear to me: you never got over Morrissey.”
I said “Well, right you are!”
“It’s so much harder to be underfed than under-understood,” he said.
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
Go near an open window and that’ll be the end of me.
I went to see Kip Winger
He said, “In my day we knew how to party. Bands today, c'mon, not hardly.”
He had a back-up singer (doo doo doo doo).
He said, “The metal scene is a disgrace, but I ain’t got no dog in that race!”
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
Go near an open window and that’ll be the end of me.
Don’t despair, your mother loves you.
Don’t be proud because she has to.
Don’t despair, your mother loves you.
Don’t be proud, she’s gotta.
(And just because it’s meta doesn’t make it any betta!)
-
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, Notebook E (1945). ↩
Quotes
Sean: "Meetings With Remarkable Men" was a last-minute title change that no one in the band has ever once used to discuss the song, me included; after months of dour, slow, chorusless half-songs, we wrote this one in a burst and the album felt finished, focused, fun; Kip Winger was reportedly not amused.10A
References
- Meetings with Remarkable Men is the title of G.I. Gurdjieff’s 1963 memoir, as well as its 1979 film adaptation.
Notes
- Recorded at John & Stu’s Place.