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The Crusader's Call

from Getting Older by Doug Hoyer

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I started working on this song when I lived in Chicago, piecing together the album "Character Witness". At the time, I thought this song would be from the perspective of a citizen living in a fictional world of superheroes, just trying to get to work while train lines were upended by clumsy heroics. It didn't quite work, so the song sat on my shelf (well, in my hard drive).

After the US capital attack on Jan 6, 2021, there was a viral photo of Rep. Andy Kim collecting garbage from the floor of the rotunda. Doing the work. Picking up the pieces. It really stuck with me, reminding me of this song I had started, and inspired me to rewrite it.

Thanks to Joe Gurba for helping me tweak and revise some of the lyrics.

As simple and naive as this may sound, please try to be a hero in your everyday life, in whatever ways that you can.

Enjoy this song, thanks for listening.

A portion of the sales of this song will be donated to Calgary's Centre for Newcomers

www.centrefornewcomers.ca

lyrics

Am I the star of my own story
From my own point of view
How I long to be the hero
But some days I'm the villain too

I don't always feel so brave
Staring danger in the face
Behind every movement made
The risks are there to take

Anyone can be a hero
Nominate the nobodies
Find the quiet in the riot
Pick up rubble in the streets
Rebuild the world with our dignity

There's ashes in our hair
There's oceans at our feet
There's work left to be done
Work that'll never be complete

Anyone can be a hero
Nominate the nobodies
Find the quiet in the riot
Pick up rubble in the streets
Rebuild the world with our dignity
Rebuild the world with our dignity
Rebuild the world

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from Getting Older, released November 10, 2021
Doug Hoyer - Everything
Lyrics by Doug Hoyer with help from Joe Gurba. (SOCAN)

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