Listen to "Heroes" (Live '83) by David Bowie

"Heroes" (Live '83)

David Bowie

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

David Bowie

Vocals

Frank Sims

Background Vocals

George Simms

Background Vocals

Carmine Rojas

Bass Guitar

Tony Thompson

Drums

Carlos Alomar

Guitar

Lenny Pickett

Horn

Stan Harrison

Horn

Steve Elson

Horn

D. Lebolt

Keyboards

Earl Slick

Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Alessandro Lindblad

Alessandro Lindblad

Songwriter

David Bowie

Songwriter

Brian Eno

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

David Bowie

Producer

Ray Staff

Mastering Engineer

Bob Clearmountain

Bob Clearmountain

Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I will take off, dilly, dilly

Lavender green, I will be king, dilly, dilly

You will be queen

[Verse 2]

I, I will be king

And you, you will be my queen

Oh, nothing will keep us together

We can beat them forever and ever

We can be heroes just for one day

[Verse 3]

And I, well, I wish I could swim

Like dolphins, like dolphins can swim

Oh, nothing will keep us together

We can beat them forever and ever

We can be heroes just for one day

[Verse 4]

And I, I can remember

Standing, standing by the wall

And the guns, the guns shot above our heads

But we kissed as though nothing could fall

[Verse 5]

And the shame, it fell on the other side

Oh, we can beat them forever and ever

We could be heroes just for one day

Just sayin' now

[Verse 6]

We could be heroes

We could be heroes

We could be heroes

We could be heroes

[Verse 7]

And nothing and no one could hear us

Maybe we're lying then we better not stay

We could be safer just for one day, what you say now?

[Verse 8]

Oh

Oh

Oh

Just for one day

[Verse 9]

We could be heroes

We could be heroes

We could be heroes just for one day

Written by: Brian Eno, David Bowie, Tove Lo

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