2. Heroes

Although I really like almost all the songs on this record, different songs grabbed me for different reasons. For “Heroes,” it was the intro. First of all, it builds wonderfully, and I can see why David likes to open a concert with this one – it’s a great lights-come-on piece. There’s also a nice little fake-out to it, in that you expect a pretty, mellow song from the dainty guitar in the first couple of seconds, and then the drums come in and it turns into rock anthem power ballad.

How sweet is he to stick a flower in his guitar in recognition of the people who brought him flowers? Sweet as spun sugar dipped in honey and covered in maple syrup, that’s how sweet.

Live version:

David’s performance of this song bothered me more than HLTW, because I like this song a lot more than HLTW, and I thought that David could have done so much better. I still like David’s arrangement better than the original, which stays on the same note for “lift” and “yourself” on the line “Dare you to lift yourself off of the floor.”