In 1991, I saw Les Brown (motivational speaker) give a talk and he asked, "If you had one year to live, and guaranteed success at anything you wanted to do... what would that be?" For a flash of a second... before I thought of something logical... I saw me doing what I had dreamed of back when I was in Junior High School... I wanted to be Peter, Paul and Mary... of course, I blew this off and focused on my "career"... in 1998, several careers later, I quit my day job to be a folksinger :-)

MY HERO

WHAT WAS THAT? IT'S WAS JUST ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE

IT WAS IN THE BACK OF MY MIND

I MUST HAVE SEEN IT IN A DREAM

NEVER MIND, IT'LL PROBABLY COME BACK

IT MUST HAVE JUST SLIPPED MY MIND

BUT, IT WAS LIKE THIS PICTURE OF A HERO

AND SHE COULD RUN AND SHE COULD SING

AND SHE COULD DO MOST ANYTHING

AND WHEN EACH DAY BEGAN ANEW

SHE HAD THE STRENGTH TO FOLLOW THROUGH

AND SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO 

(2ND TIME "BUT THEN SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO..."

3RD TIME "BECAUSE SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO..." )

THAT'S OK -- I THINK I KNOW WHAT I WANT

OF COURSE, IT MAKES SENSE TO ME

I'VE AIMED THAT WAY ALL MY LIFE

YESTERDAY -- I WROTE IT DOWN AND SET IT UP

I MADE A LIST OF STUFF TO DO

BUT MY MIND DRIFTS EACH TIME I START

CHORUS

IF I KNEW -- IS THIS MY DREAM OR ONLY NEED

I'D TAKE A CHANCE AND PLANT A SEED

I'D WIN, I KNOW IT, JUST FOR ME

LITTLE CHILD -- YOU KNEW AND NEVER SAID A WORD

YOU WAITED TIL I KNEW FOR SURE

THAT I COULD DO IT IF I DARED

CHORUS

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