# NO HERO TONIGHT [Intro – lone distorted guitar, low vocal] Yeah… Everybody loves the strong one till he needs somewhere to put the weight. I don’t need saving. Just don’t disappear. [Verse 1] I’ve walked holes through this house at night Trying to outrun what lives inside Kept every light on, locked every door Still heard my head say, *you can’t do this anymore* I’ve carried storms without making a sound Held everybody up while I sank through the ground Got real fucking good at looking alright While losing whole pieces of myself every night And people call that strength Like strength means never showing strain Nah. Sometimes strength is just not letting the dark choose your name. [Pre-Chorus] So when the armour hits the floor And I ain’t what you saw before Don’t build me back into the man You needed me to pretend I am [Chorus] I don’t need to be your hero tonight Don’t need a cape, don’t need to win this fight If my hands shake If my head gets loud If the man you leaned on finally sits down Will you still know me without all that might? Will you stay beside me when I’m no hero tonight? Don’t fix me Don’t carry me Just remind me I’m still here When the strongest thing I’ve got left is choosing not to disappear [Verse 2] You called me solid, I learned to perform it Built a whole identity around surviving enormous shit Someone needed help, I was already there Someone needed ground, I became the fucking stairs Funny thing about being everybody’s wall Nobody thinks to ask what happens when walls fall So I patched every crack before anyone could see Till holding everyone together started pulling apart me I know that move now I know what it costs Being needed can feel a lot like purpose right up until you’re lost. [Pre-Chorus] So if you catch me looking small Don’t confuse that with giving up at all Maybe I’m finally letting you see The part underneath what protected me [Chorus] I don’t need to be your hero tonight Don’t need a cape, don’t need to win this fight If my hands shake If my head gets loud If the man you leaned on finally sits down Will you still know me without all that might? Will you stay beside me when I’m no hero tonight? Don’t fix me Don’t carry me Just remind me I’m still here When the strongest thing I’ve got left is choosing not to disappear [Bridge – music drops almost completely] There were nights I didn’t need an answer. Didn’t need advice. Didn’t need someone telling me how much I had to live for. I fucking knew. That was the problem. I knew exactly what I stood to lose and still couldn’t feel the ground beneath me. So I found one thing. One voice. One face. One reason. One hand still there. Then another. Then another. Until the dark stopped feeling infinite. [Build] That’s what an anchor is. It doesn’t stop the storm. It just gives you something the storm can’t move. [Final Chorus – full band, huge but raw] I DON’T HAVE TO BE THE HERO TONIGHT I can lose my footing and still choose life Let my hands shake Let my head get loud I’ve survived enough to finally sit down And if you know me you know I’ll rise But you don’t have to watch me bleed to know I’m still alive Don’t fix me Don’t worship me Don’t tell me I’m too strong to fear Just stay long enough to remind me— I’m still fucking here I’m still fucking here No cape No armour No superhuman lie Just a man in the dark finding one more reason to see tomorrow’s light [Outro – guitar ringing out] I used to think the anchor was somebody holding onto me. Turns out… sometimes the anchor is remembering I’m still holding on too. Yeah. No hero tonight. Just me. Still here.
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