i dream of you; it’s true. and still, it seems too alarming now to talk about ... but the images are there. you, wearing that fuzzy gray sweater and me standing next to you, my body pressed against yours, head resting on your shoulder. waking up is difficult. i’ve decided to take your pictures down and shake it out. shake off all the dust, grime and stigma. after all, i’ve moved on. the days of innocence are gone, despite the fact that at one time, we were good friends. but distance grows among family when strangers adore you. is this truth or consequence? all i know is that the process sucks; the whole machine sucks. and we were sucked in or fucked over; it was our destiny.
say it aloud use that evidence race it around or go in circles. don’t ask me. but they all asked me anyway, as if i knew, as if i could say something to make them understand. and all i could think was, there goes my hero watch him as he goes there goes my hero he’s ordinary ...ordinary! to see the whole thing spiral into something else; i think that messed me up the most. to see the spectrum of fucking freaks and their fucking freak interpretations when underneath it all was something and someone ordinary, it blew my mind. but we were naïve, stupid. we both manipulated the machine; and the machine paid us back by slapping a mask of extraordinary on our faces. and the mask hurts like hell. it kills.
but don’t the
best of them bleed it out while the rest of them peter out? that’s
the big question. i don’t know. all i know is that you accomplished something; you gave them
alternative blood, a baby swimming after money... punk's not dead. you bled it out and were gone.
so the question repeats.
i came up with this because the point of view expressed by the protagonist of this song is very much like a character in a story i am currently writing. when i read the lyrics of "my hero", i realized that my character empathized with this point of view. extrapolating from this, i chose a few images that suggest kurt cobain but i am in no way saying that dave grohl means or has felt the things as i've expressed them. and i understand that everything he has ever said displays a staunch refusal to reveal too much, that there are boundaries that will not be overstepped in relation to his personal feelings and his professional status. this is what he says about the song:
So 'My Hero' was the one that relates to Kurt?
Dave: "Yeah. The song 'My Hero' is about finding heroes in ordinary people. And when I was young I didn't look up to sports figures or movie stars. There were musicians that I had a lot of respect for, but did I want to grow up and be like them? No. I had a Kiss poster, but did I want to grow up and be like Ace Frehley? No. They were usually friends or family that I had so much respect for that they just became my heroes. There have been a few important people in my life that I still consider heroes. Because they were ordinary people, and not because of mass adulation or. whatever."
---excerpted from "GROHL LOTTA LOVE" Roger Morton (NME, May 17,1997)
Here are links to good Foo Fighters pictures which I've played with using Adobe Photoshop or downloaded from other webpages:
The following is a link to an interview with Dave that I transcribed from Rage Magazine, 1997.
| Dave Grohl Interview, 1997 |
The following is a link for those of you interested in an excellent theory of the universe.
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Here's a link to my personal webpage which just has a few poems I wrote.
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The song interpretation above
was written by Caroline Cubé and was first posted on 1 August 1997. Updated on 29 November 2000. Comments are welcome: pinky@library.ucla.edu
