Why Must I Be the Hero? (Isaacappella Mix)

[Verse 1] You’re warm in your chair with the firelight glow, Popcorn and peace while the credits roll slow. You cheer for my courage, you sigh at my pain, You thrill to the thunder as I fight the rain. [Chorus] Why must I be the hero, always fighting for my life? You thrill to the adventure, I'm drowning in the strife. I'm lost in the fray, but you think it's play. And my happily ever after... is a long, long way away. [Verse 2] The bards will remember the battles I have won, But not the nights I questioned if I'd ever see the sun. They’ll sing of the glory, the victory call— But I'll face the trauma long after it all. [Chorus] Why must I be the hero, always fighting for my life? You thrill to the adventure, I'm drowning in the strife. I'm lost in the fray, but you think it's play. And my happily ever after... is a long, long way away. [Verse 3] I’ve carried your hopes through the smoke and flame, In fight after fight; yeah, they all feel the same. You watch from your couches, quite sure I’ll survive— But my Soul is in tatters, more dead than alive. [Chorus] Why must I be the hero, always fighting for my life? You thrill to the adventure, I'm drowning in the strife. I'm lost in the fray, but you think it's play. And my happily ever after... is a long, long way away. [Bridge] Maybe one day I can trade in my sword, For a kettle, a garden, a peaceful life restored. I'll find my peace before the end and sooth my troubled soul. [pause. silence for 2 seconds] In a 20 second epilog before the credits roll. [Final Chorus] ’Cause I’m just the hero, still fighting for my life! I gave you your adventure — all I got was strife. And all I can say, at the end of the day, Is this... “My happily ever after...     is a long, long way away.”