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The lifeless body of hero lay in silence Face down in the dirt of the land that his fathers sewed So unceremonious and callous In a ditch of a shed on a dusty desert road Ira spoke the proud tongue of the Pima Yet he stood to fight when the bombs fell on his shores Cut his teeth on the isle of Iwo Jima And the fame that he gained only filled him with remorse He'd say the lights and flashes all are just a show He'd say the real ones don't live to see another And when the day is done you'll see an afterglow Until it dulls and fades away Survivor's guilt in the spotlight of the nation Would quickly drive the most pious men to drink And when the papers cite your every altercation You're an outcast on raft that's built to sink He'd say the lights and flashes all are just a show He'd say the real ones don't live to see another And when the day is done you'll see an afterglow Until it dulls and fades away He'd say the lights and flashes all are just a show SongtexteHe'd say the real ones don't live to see another And when the day is done you'll see an afterglow Until it dulls And he was outcast, he was defamed He was hated, he was loved, he was a symbol He was a hero to his kind, he was a leader to the blind And he was praised He was Ira Hayes Aus Songtexte Mania