Be My Hero

When do you know that you truly love someone? I don't means affection, infatuation, or any sort of lust. Those are matters of the passions, and they have their own place. 

No, I mean when love is an act of the will, a commitment. When do I know that I have done it right?

When I think of her first, and I think of what she would enjoy, long before I think of myself, or what I would enjoy.

"She would love this song!"

And then I cry, not because she won't give me the time of day, but because I can no longer share anything of myself with her. 

Be my hero. Show that you would die for me, even if it only involves a smile, or changing a lightbulb. 

—12/1993

October Project, "Be My Hero" from October Project (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXlJcomE4A&list=PL64226EA8245A2761&index=8

Sleep with the window open
Sleep till tomorrow, be my hero
Be without being lonely, try to open
We try to open, hoping for a hero

I want something, I want everything
I want nothing, nothing else
I want someone, not just anyone, be my hero

Keep what is secret, secret
We can believe it, be my hero

I want something, I want everything
I want nothing, nothing else
I want someone, not just anyone, be my hero

See how we measure feelings from a distance
See how we measure people into zero

I want something, I want everything
I want nothing, nothing else
I want someone, almost anyone