They called him crazy on the streets Young and angry, one bad seed He wore the colors of his call He'd be the baddest of them all Shoot out came down in a police raid By a Smith and Wesson thirty eight At seventeen he met his fate Fallen hero What were you trying to prove? Fallen hero All you got was front page news It's too late, tough break, read your epitaph Fallen hero How many others will follow in your path? He had a lady, she cries alone It would come to this, she's always known She remembers how he used to say "There ain't no future anyway" Sirens echo in the night Now his name is the battle cry Of another boy who lives to die Fallen hero What were you trying to prove? Fallen hero All you got was front page news It's too late tough break read your epitaph Fallen hero How many others will follow in your path? And so the story lives on, of how his glory was won And no lesson ever learned, of the tragedies to come Yeah yea yea yea Sirens echo in the night Now his name is the battle cry Of another boy who lives to die Fallen hero What were you trying to prove? Fallen hero All you got was front page news It's too late, tough break read your epitaph Fallen hero How many others will follow? Yeah yea Fallen hero What were you trying to prove? Fallen hero All you got was front page news It's too late, tough break read your epitaph Fallen hero How many others Fallen hero Come and see now Fallen hero All you got was front page news Fallen hero How could she know Fallen hero Stay down someday Fallen hero Fallen hero Fallen hero