That's What Heroes Do

Writers: David Allen Clark, Jonathan Noah Buckner, Zachary M Alvis

Verse 1:
Summer nineteen forty four
Found him on a distant shore
Fighting for a cause that he believed
Though he was one who lived to tell
He kept the story to himself
But still somehow it found its way to me

Cause some memories can’t be buried
And some scars just can’t be hid
What my granddad didn’t say with words
I learned by how he lived

Chorus
I saw the teardrops in his eyes
When he saw old glory fly
I watched the way he watched the soldiers
When they passed him by
I never heard him once complain
About what he went through
Maybe that was just his way of teaching me
That’s what heroes do

Verse 2
(I) never heard him talk about
The pictures framed above the couch
(He) looked so young to be so far from home
But even now I still believe
He kept em there for me to see
That freedom didn’t happen on its own

I won’t ever take for granted
What he fought for way back then
But I’m stronger for the lessons that
I learned from watching him