Hellenic words in international songs: Hero

Hellenic words in international songs (Part 2): Hero
(Hero, Heroine, Heroic, Heroism but also: heroin)


Adult Education - HALL & OATES (1983)
Lyrics: The boys are busy in the mirrors, trying to imitate their heroes

All The Things She Said - SIMPLE MINDS (LP Once Upon A Time, 1985)
Lyrics: don't you look down like the heroes say

Army Dreamers - KATE BUSH (LP Never For Ever, 1980)
Lyrics: I've a bunch of purple flowers to decorate a mammy's hero

Born To Run - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (LP Born To Run, 1975)
Lyrics: The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive

Cause You Are Young - C.C. CATCH (LP Catch The Catch, 1986)
Lyrics: You're a hero, you're a man, you're a winner, take my hand

Chance - BIG COUNTRY (LP The Crossing, 1983)
Lyrics: He came like a hero from the factory floor with the sun and moon as gifts

Child Of Vision - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: You tried to be a hero, commit the perfect crime but the dollar got you dancing and you're running out of time

Coat Of Arms - SABATON (LP Coat Of Arms, 2010)
Lyrics:  Blood of heroes saving their land,  Blood of King Leonidas!

Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover - SOPHIE B. HAWKINS (LP Tongues & Tails, 1992)
Lyrics: I had a dream I was your hero

Dancing Barefoot - PATTI SMITH GROUP (1979), U2 (1989)
Lyrics:  I'm dancing barefoot headin' for a spin. Some strange music draws me in.. It makes me come up like some heroine

Dancing Girls - NIK KERSHAW (LP Human Racing, 1984)
Lyrics: our hero sits with head in hands and heart upon his sleeve

Englishman In New York - STING (LP ...Nothing Like The Sun, 1987)
Lyrics: If "manners maketh man" as someone said, he's the hero of the day. It takes a man to suffer ignorance and mile. Be yourself no matter what they say.

Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - BILLY OCEAN (LP Tear Down These Walls, 1988)
Lyrics: Just like a hero outta the blue. I'll be your non-stop lover, get it while you can

Glory Of Love - PETER CETERA (OST Karate Kid 2, 1986) 
Lyrics: I'll be the hero you're dreamin' of

Go Gentle - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (LP Swings Both Ways, 2013)
Lyrics: don't waste time with the idiots, think that the're heroes, they will betray zou

Greatest Love Of All - GEORGE BENSON (OST The Greatest, 1977), WHITNEY HOUSTON (1985)
Lyrics: Everybody searching for a hero, people need someone to look up to

Hero - MARIAH CAREY (LP Music Box, 1993)

Hero - ENRIQUE IGLESIAS (LP Escape, 2001)

Heroes - DAVID BOWIE (LP Heroes, 1977)

HIStory - MICHAEL JACKSON (1997)
Lyrics: Every hero dreams of chivalry

Holding Out For A Hero - BONNIE TYLER (OST Footlose, 1984)
Lyrics:  Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?

I Come Undone - JENNIFER RUSH (LP Heart Over Mind, 1987)
Lyrics: Love's got its heroes, but I know that I just can't hold out forever

I Don't Want To Be A Hero - JOHNNY HATES JAZZ (1987 / LP Turn Back The Clock, 1988)

I Wanna Be A Cowboy - BOYS DON'T CRY (LP Boys Don't Cry, 1986)
Lyrics: looking like a hero

I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You - MARC ANTHONY & TINA ARENA (OST The Mask Of Zorro, 1998)
Lyrics: Heroes rise heroes fall, rise again, win it all

If You Could Read My Mind - GORDON LIGHTFOOT (LP If You Could Read My Mind, 1970)
Lyrics: What a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel,  the kind the drugstore sells.
When you reach the part where the heartaches come... the hero would be me. Heroes often fail... and you won't read that book again

Joan Of Arc - LEONARD COHEN (1970), JENNIFER WARNES (1987)
Lyrics: something in me yearns to win such a cold and lonesome heroine

Juke Box Hero - FOREIGNER (LP 4, 1981)

Korean Bodega - FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS (LP 100% Colombian, 1998)
Lyrics:  See he is both the hero and the pragmatist

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY (LP Raw Like Sushi, 1989)
Lyrics: Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream

Meds - PLACEBO feat ALISON MOSSHART (aka VV, lead singer of The Kills) (LP Meds, 2006)
Lyrics: All manner of joy, all manner of glee and our one heroic pledge

Mr. Roboto - STYX (LP Kilroy Was Here, 1983)
Lyrics: I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know

99 Red Balloons - NENA (1983 / LP Nena - International Album, 1984)
Lyrics: Everyone's a silver hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk

No More Heroes - THE STRANGLERS (LP No More Heroes, 1977)

Nothing From Nothing - BILLY PRESTON (LP The Kids & Me, 1974)

Obsession - ARMY OF LOVERS (LP Massive Luxury Overdose, 1991)
Lyrics: You're my hero in advance

Once Upon A Time In The West - DIRE STRAITS (LP Communiqué, 1979)
Lyrics: Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest

Oops! ... I Did It Again - BRITNEY SPEARS (LP Oops! ... I Did It Again, 2000)
Lyrics: you see my problem is this I'm dreaming away, wishing that heroes, they truly exist

Our Last Summer - ABBA (LP Super Trouper, 1980)
Lyrics: you're the hero of my dreams

State Of The Nation - INDUSTRY (LP Stranger To Stranger, 1983)
Lyrics: I see them marching off to war they're looking so heroic. I'm told they won't be gone for long but that's a lie and they know it. Ten thousand gone they won't return never to be seen again. Strategic games is all we learn in the end

Streets Of London - RALPH McTELL (1969)

Lyrics: In our winter city The rain cries a little pity For one more forgotten hero And a world that doesn't care

Suzanne - JUDY COLLINS (1966), LEONARD COHEN (1967)
Lyrics: There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning

The Blower's Daughter - DAMIEN RICE (2001 / LP O, 2002 /  OST Closer, 2004)
Lyrics: No love, no glory, no hero in her skies

The Boy In The Bubble - PAUL SIMON (LP Graceland, 1986)
Lyrics: every generation throws a hero up the pop charts

The Last Of The Famous International Playboys - MORRISSEY (1989 / LP Bona Drag, 1990)
Lyrics: Dear hero imprisoned with all the new crimes that you are perfecting oh, I can't help quoting you

The Show Must Go On - QUEEN (LP Innuendo, 1991)
Lyrics:another hero, another mindless crime

These Days - BON JOVI (LP These Days, 1996)
Lyrics: Don't you know that all my heroes died and I guess I'd rather die than fade away

Thick As A Brick (Part 1) - JETHRO TULL (LP Thick As A Brick, 1972)
Lyrics (on 18'40''): Come on ye childhood heroes! won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books, your super crooks and show us all the way

We Close Our Eyes - GO WEST (LP Go West, 1985)
Lyrics: Heroes never give into the night

We Don't Need Another Hero - TINA TURNER (OST Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 1985)

Welcome To The Black Parade - MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (LP The Black Parade, 2006)
Lyrics:  I'm just a man, I'm not a hero

When YouTell Me That You Love Me - DIANA ROSS (LP The Force Behind The Power, 1991)
Lyrics:  Every time you touch me I become a hero

Wind Beneath My Wings - ROGER WHITTAKER (1982), BETTE MIDLER (OST Beaches, 1988)
Lyrics: did you ever know that you're my hero?

Wish We Were Heroes - MELISSA MANCHESTER & DAVID GATES (LP Hey Ricky, 1982)

Wish You Were Here - PINK FLOYD (LP Wish You Were Here, 1975)
Lyrics: and did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? 

Working Class Hero - JOHN LENNON / PLASTIC ONO BAND (1970)

You're History - SHAKESPEAR'S SISTER (LP Sacred Heart, 1989)
Lyrics: You should see me from your ivory tower, I'm the hero of the hour

You're In The Army Now - BOLLAND (LP The Domino Theory, 1981)
Lyrics: You'll be the hero of the neighbourhood, nobody knows that you left for good 

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - MANIC STREET PREACHERS feat. NINA PERSSON (LP Send Away The Tigers, 2007)
Lyrics: Trade all your heroes in for ghosts


Reference to Hellenic heroes in international songs 

Achilles

Achilles Last Stand - LED ZEPPELIN (LP Presence, 1976)

Ajax

Flash - QUEEN (OST Flash Gordon, 1980)
Lyrics:  Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body 

Hercules

Hercules - AARON NEVILLE (1973) 

Jason & The Argonauts

Birdhouse In Your Soul - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1990)
Lyrics: There's a picture opposite me, of my primitive ancestry which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free. Though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job. After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts... Bluebird of friendliness like guardian angels its always near
(Αναφορά στη διέλευση ανάμεσα απο τις Συμπληγάδες Πέτρες) 

Theseus

In The Flat Field - BAUHAUS (LP In The Flat Field, 1980)
Lyrics: Where is the string that Theseus laid find me out this labyrinth place
(Αναφορά στο Λαβύρινθο και το μίτο της Αριάδνης)


also see:

Heroin

Birth, School, Work, Death - THE GODFATHERS (1987 / LP Birth, School, Work, Death, 1988)
Lyrics: and heroin was the love you gave

Ganz Wien - FALCO (LP Einzelhaft, 1982)
Lyrics: Ganz Wien, ist heut auf heroin

I Believe In You - TALK TALK (LP Spirit Of Eden, 1988)
Lyrics:  I've seen heroin for myself, on the street so young laying wasted. Enough ain't it enough... Crippled world

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - THE DANDY WARHOLS (LP ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, 1997)
Lyrics: But I never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe

Time To Pretend - MGMT (LP Oraculr Spectacular, 2008)
Lyrics: I'm feelin' rough I'm feelin' raw I'm in the prime of my life. Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives... I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars. You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars


My related  broadcast on Radio Boo (12/06/2013)

http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/16991538/hero_songs