Twentieth Century Hero

I know you read between the lines

When them up there say it’s all fine

Then break your back from nine to five

To keep your two point four alive

Well it’s Hymns for a Sunday

And it’s booze for a Monday

And dreamers thinking one day

It will all be taken care of

(You’re a hero)

Zero, zero, zero

Rather be Valentino

Well don’t run away stay here and play

Twentieth century hero

Well I know you’re never influenced

By craze or fashions zoo caress

You didn’t buy that car to show

The guy next door where he can go

Where your grass is the greenest

And your life saccharinest

Well your beach ain’t the cleanest

It will all be taken care of

(You’re a hero)

Zero, hero, zero

Cap in hand Valentino

Well I hope you know I love you so

Twentieth century hero

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

Twentieth century hero you

Believe what you believe is true

Opinion polls, who gives a damn

Look Errol Flynn now there’s a man

With the price of the harvest

Is swept under the carpet

And the big ones fall the hardest

It will all be taken care of

(You’re a hero)

Dero, Dero, Dero

Vanity Valentino

Well you’re gonna be the death of me

Twentieth century hero

Hero, hero, hero

Vanity Valentino

Well you’re gonna be the death of me

Twentieth century hero