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HeroDavid Crosby

Released: April 15, 1993

Featuring: Phil Collins

Songwriter: Phil Collins David Crosby

Producer: Nick Davies Phil Collins

It was one of those great stories
That you can't put down at night
The hero knew what he had to do
And he wasn't afraid to fight

The villain goes to jail
While the hero goes free
I wish it were that simple for me

And the reason that she loved him
Was the reason I loved him too
And he never wondered
What was right or wrong
He just knew, he just knew

Shadow and shape
Mix together at dawn
But by the time you catch them
Simplicity's gone

So we sort through the pieces
My friends and I
Searching through the darkness
To find the breaks in the sky

And the reason that she loved him
Was the reason I loved him too
And he never wondered
What was right or wrong
He just knew, he just knew

And we wonder, yes, we wonder
How do you make sense of this
When the hero kills the maiden
With his kiss, with his kiss

Well, it was one of those great stories
That you can't put down at night
The hero knew what he had to do
And he wasn't afraid to fight

The villain goes to jail
While the hero goes free
I wish it were that simple for me
Were that simple for me

David Crosby

Before David Van Cortlandt Crosby was making supergroup music with Stills, Nash, and Young, he was a founding member of The Byrds, itself a super-famous band.

In fact, the origin of CSN&Y centers around him getting in trouble with his Byrds band-mates when he played onstage with Buffalo Springfield at the infamous Monterey Pop Festival. He was substituting for Neil Young at the request of his friend Stephen Stills. This got David in trouble with the Byrds, and within a year he left that band, bumping into also-unemployed Stills and teaming up with Graham Nash (of The Hollies) to form Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Within a year, Young joined them and their combined efforts were some of the biggest artistic success of any of the four singer-songwriters.

The bulk of Crosby’s subsequent career is a stylized montage of songs recorded solo or with one or more of the other CSN&Y members, many of whom have teamed up to release albums at one time or another, in various combinations.

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