We?ve all dreamed together of being kids forever
Monroe and JFK, hoping they'll come back someday,
Elvis, John and Jimmy, too, what?s the world gonna do?
Everybody needs a hero to look up to,
Like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa!
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive,
To keep yourself alive.
We made believe that we could be on TV,
A secret fantasy that we were Mr James Dean,
Then Alan Freed called it Rock n Roll and started it all,
The Beatles, Who, Kiss and Crue, What's the world gonna do?
Everybody needs a hero to look up to,
Like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa!
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive,
To keep yourself alive.
We're all living in, a world of AIDS and sin,
We're taken one by one in vain from what we all have done,
Turn on the TV set, there's murder, rape, I do regret.
Don't despair, we care. Trust in me I'll set you free.
Everybody needs a hero to look up to,
Like kings and queens and stars upon the silver screen, whoa!
Everybody needs a hero in this world to survive,
To keep yourself alive.