Foo Fighters: My Hero Meaning

Song Released: 1998

My Hero Lyrics

Too alarming now to talk about
Take your pictures down and shake it out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He’s ordinary

Don’t the best of...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 9th 2008 !⃝

   I think it's about the armed forces. Soldiers are just ordinary people after all.... and when he says the one that's on... He means the one that's on the battlefield.
   
   Just my opinion.

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2. anonymous

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   Sep 27th 2007 !⃝

   LOL at the person who said "Kudo's my hero" is KUrt DOuglas cobain.... geez.... you know that kudo's is a word too, right? An online dictionary says it means... "Acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement." That fits perfectly for telling a fireman or a cop or even just a normal person that they did a great job. (in the video, someone going in and saving a woman, baby and a dog from a burning building was a hero.) Yeah, sure to him Kurt was a hero, but to those of us who aren't big Kurt fans... He isn't. From my point of view, that wouldn't make a good album sale if they dedicated a whole album to someone that not a lot of their fans looked up to the same way. They have to make it universal.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 28th 2007 !⃝

   I think it's about Kurt. when he says
   "Kudo's my hero" he means KUrt DOuglas cobain

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4. anonymous

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   Jun 18th 2007 !⃝

   Screw Kurt Cobain. It has nothing to do with him.
5. anonymous

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   Feb 6th 2007 !⃝

   Alright, this song isn't JUST about Kurt. It's talking about a funeral, where people pass around (race around) the evidence (truth) of the deceased, and how great they were. They are the ordinary heros, passing on every day, dying fast (bleed it out) or slowly (peter out), but passing on all the same. They are admired for their accomplishments (truth) and by the lives they touched (consequence). For Dave, Kurt fall into this category. For the rest of us, it can be anyone we admire.
6. anonymous

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   Sep 18th 2006 !⃝

   Pluto's his hero......Lol

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7. anonymous

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   Oct 25th 2005 !⃝

   This song's about being a hero without super powers or being super strong, fast, flying, being an X-men, Spiderman, Superman, Hulk, or any oyher comic book fiction super person. You can be a hero just by beating the odds and stuff like that, you don't have to save someone's life literaly.
8. darkpower0

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   Aug 1st 2005 !⃝

   This song was influenced by the death of Kurt Cobain and what Dave Grohl thought of Kurt and people like him. It doesn't just refer to Kurt it refers to people like your best friends who may not be much to everyone but to us there like our heros.
9. Randomlink

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   Jul 7th 2005 !⃝

   I agree that this song is NOT specifically about Kurt Cobain. It is about those people who are not conventional heros (famous and popular), ordinary people, yet who are heros to him (or to anyone else with his mindset) for who they are or what they have done. I'm sure Kurt is ONE of these heros because in Dave's world Kurt is a real person who clearly acheived a lot and was an amazing individual - but the true meaning of the song is not as specific as the "church of Kurt" would say.
10. anonymous

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    Jul 1st 2005 !⃝

    Dave Grohl has said on several occassions that this song was not written about Kurt.
11. cobainfreak3270

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    Jun 28th 2004 !⃝

    This song is about the death of lead singer Dave Grohls mentor and friend Kurt Cobain, former frontman for the grunge band Nirvana, whom Grohl drummed for.

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