Released: November 21, 1980
Songwriter: Kevin Savigar Carmine Appice Phil Chen Rod Stewart
Producer: Andy Johns Harry The Hook The Rod Stewart Group
[Verse 1]
Call the girls and dress up fine
Tonight I felt like suicide
Roll them dice and pour the wine
Shuffle them cards and deal them fine
Got nobody to kiss tonight
Nothing to lose but my appetite
[Verse 2]
Wanna be silly and sing and shout
Gotta get legless and fall about
Turn the music up nice and loud
Cheer me up don't bring me down
Gonna lose my job next week
Getting replaced by a silicone chip
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Verse 3]
Don't like the scenery don't like the set
Tear it all down and start again
Man keeps talking on the radio
Telling me what I don't wanna know
Radiation wars and layatril
If tax don't get ya then cancer will
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Outro]
Better off dead, better off dead
Better off dead, better off dead
Call the girls and dress up fine
Tonight I felt like suicide
Roll them dice and pour the wine
Shuffle them cards and deal them fine
Got nobody to kiss tonight
Nothing to lose but my appetite
[Verse 2]
Wanna be silly and sing and shout
Gotta get legless and fall about
Turn the music up nice and loud
Cheer me up don't bring me down
Gonna lose my job next week
Getting replaced by a silicone chip
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Verse 3]
Don't like the scenery don't like the set
Tear it all down and start again
Man keeps talking on the radio
Telling me what I don't wanna know
Radiation wars and layatril
If tax don't get ya then cancer will
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
I might have been a hero
But I chose to stay in bed
I might have been prime minister
But right now honey I'm better off dead
[Outro]
Better off dead, better off dead
Better off dead, better off dead
more tracks from the album
Foolish Behaviour (Bonus Track Version)
- Gi’ Me Wings
- She Won’t Dance With Me (Live)
- The Wild Side of Life (Live)
- Gi’ Me Wings (Studio Rough)
- Passion (Alternate Version)
- I Just Want to Make Love to You (Live)
- Say It Ain’t True
- Passion
- She Won’t Dance with Me
- Foolish Behaviour
- My Girl
- Better Off Dead
- Somebody Special
- So Soon We Change
- Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight
- (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right (Live)
From the albums
- Foolish Behaviour (Bonus Track Version) (1980)
- Foolish Behaviour (1980)
Rod Stewart popular songs
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It
- Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
- Young Turks
- Maggie May
- Forever Young
- Love Is
- Sailing
- Handbags & Gladrags
- Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? (Remix)
- Maggie May (Live)
- Faith of the Heart
- Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- Have I Told You Lately
- Didn’t I
- Baby Jane
- You’re in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
- The First Cut Is the Deepest
- When I Need You
- Downtown Train
- Rhythm of My Heart
- Hot Legs
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Missing You