The One - Luka Bloom

Why should you be the one to go out on the edge

Do you really want to be another dead hero?

Why should you be the one to go out on the edge

Do you really want to be another dead hero?

People have expectations of a man in your position

They want you to carry some torch into the public view

Voyeurs of this world ignoring your beautiful words

Say they want you to survive

But they demand this madness of you

Why should you be the one to go out on the edge

Do you really want to be another dead hero?

I love your music and I love your songs

I love the wild things in your head

I want you here with us

Helping us to stick this mad place

But for so many years now this habit’s been forming

And so many others have failed

You made friends with that devil

Now he feels a little kinder to face

Why should you be the one to go out on the edge

Do you really want to be another dead hero?

I think of the young ones who make their way home

Through the night after one of your shows

Their lives a little richer

For having been touched by you

They dance and they sweat and they call out your name

The excitement just belts out and flows

You’ve been singing your guts out

Is that not enough to do?

Why should you be the one to go out on the edge

Do you really want to be another dead hero?