I do my best to walk the finest line

[impy]

A song for a bad day/week/year/lifetime:

I'm Not Your Hero might be my favorite song on the album. I'm not 100% sure of this, but for two and a half days, I played this song as close to repeat as one can get while still listening to other songs occasionally. It's the fourth track on the album and it comes after a fizzy pop-love song and two break-ups, so it's a bit unexpected. Trying to figure out why anything with this song on it would get hisses of "it's all fluff!" It sounds lighter than it is, people.

I'm a sucker for a song that says hey, you'll get through this, whatever it is. And you might've noticed that I'm kind of in need of such a song so...

Standing where I am now
Standing up at all
I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line

I was used to seeing no future in my sight line

Sometimes it feels like they want to remind me
Send all those villains after me

I'm not their hero
But that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave
I never walked the party line
Doesn't mean that I was never afraid

Learning all I know now
Losing all I did
I never used to feel like I'd be standing so far ahead

Sometimes it feels what I recovered you lost

Sometimes it feels like the side that I'm on plays the toughest hand
Holds the longest stand
Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got
It's so hard to know I'm not what they want

Why yes, yes that was a good chunk of the lyrics. But there are oh, oh, ohs!

Story behind the song. Sort of.