Where have all the good men gone And where are all the gods? Where's the streetwise Hercules To fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed Late at night, I toss and I turn And I dream of what I need
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light He's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life Larger than life
Somewhere after midnight In my wildest fantasy Somewhere, just beyond my reach There's someone reaching back for me
Racing on the thunder And rising with the heat It's gonna take a Superman to sweep me off my feet, yeah
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light He's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
Up where the mountains meet the heavens above Out where the lightning splits the sea I could swear there is someone, somewhere watching me Through the wind and the chill and the rain And the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood (Like a fire in my blood, like a fire in my blood Like a fire in my blood, like a fire in my blood, blood)
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light He's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light He's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life
I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jim Steinman / Dean Pitchford
d.: (ring) I wonder who is calling me in the middle of the day? It’s Cal.E. “Hi, Cal.E. How is the head WWaKKO (hehe). Shouldn’t you still be at work? And why are you blaring a Bonnie Tyler song in the background?"
C.: Hi, d.c. Happy Cinco de Mayo! The guys from work came over for a few bites of catnip while we watch the new show on the CNN T.V. network called “I Need a Hero.” The show is using Bonnie Tyler’s song as it’s theme song. We watched the pilot episode yesterday. It is about a former juvenile delinquent who becomes a lawyer after his father figure, a cop who grew up in his neighborhood takes the main character under his wing. The m.c. decides to “walk the straight and narrow” after the cop lectures him when he arrests the m.c. for loitering. The m.c. thinks it is unfair that he gets arrested for hanging out with his friends, so he goes to law school and becomes a lawyer. Then, one of his friends gets killed in a gang turf war, and the m.c. is reminded that his mentor encouraged him to go into law enforcement. So, “Mr. Hero” - that’s the m.c.’s last name- stops being a lawyer and goes to the police academy. After passing the police academy, he becomes a cop and, eventually, a detective. When his partner is killed and he cannot save her (they were having a torrid affair and he was secretly in love with her), he decides to go to medical school and become a doctor so he can save other like his beloved late partner. That all happened in an hour!
Tonight, Mr. Hero sees someone he thinks looks like his old partner who dies while trying to jump out of a burning building. He cannot save HER, so, he decides to become a firefighter. After he becomes a firefighter, he hears some kittens in a warehouse when he is fighting a fire at an illegal lab, so he goes into the building to save them. He saves the kittens, but is doused with radioactive material. Then, he becomes a firefighting, cop/doctor/ lawyer who saves humans, cats AND dogs from fates worse than death. I CANNOT watch this show totally sober. The plot is SO cliché that…
d.: Then why watch it?
C.: We are just marking time until the next show comes on. It is called “Kitty Po..,.”
d.: CAL.E!! You CANNOT watch that! It is illegal! Besides, if you charge THAT show to your expense account, The Kennel will fire you!
C.: For watching a show about kittens who perform pop music? Some of them are amazing! One played the keyboard, another played the bongos and another one played a bass guitar. None of them were even a year old. That kitten played the fish like he OWNED him.
d.: Don’t you mean BASS guitar?
C.: That is what I said. The kitten played with the fish, then he ate it. It was a large bass!
d.: O-kay. Anyway, why are you not still at work? It is the middle of the day. I thought you would still be teaching the dayshift how to clean kennels.
C.: Because, d.c. I had my crew come over last night for some catnip while we watched the pilot episode of “I Need a Hero.” We stayed up so late that we were all one hour late for work.
d.: AND?!!
C.: What’s six minus one?
d.: Five
C.: Right. So, if we all came in one hour late, we needed to leave one hour early, at the five-hour mark of our shift…
d.: Which meant the shift was only four hours long. That is how long the kennel workers worked before you got there. Have you been taking math lessons from your coworkers, since you could formerly only count to two?
C.: I MUST go now, the show is starting. I will see you, Eudora, Hortense and Horace when I get back to Houston.
d.: Hortense and Horace? Is she calling her mom and dad by their first names now? I guess it's back to the drawing board (heavy sigh). My test market did NOT like the pilot for my new T.V. show.
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