Randomlink July 7th, 2005 08:30PM  
I agree that this song is NOT specifically about Kurt Cobain. It is about those people who are not conventional heros (famous and popular), ordinary people, yet who are heros to him (or to anyone else with his mindset) for who they are or what they have done. I'm sure Kurt is ONE of these heros because in Dave's world Kurt is a real person who clearly acheived a lot and was an amazing individual - but the true meaning of the song is not as specific as the "church of Kurt" would say.

ray28 October 15th, 2005 07:48PM  
Dave Grohl has said that while he was growing up, he didn't have any "rock star heroes". This is a song dedicated to the ordinary heroes he had while growing up. It's also said that this song is dedicated to Jim Craig (goalie of the US Miracle on Ice team).

anonymous May 22nd, 2007 08:51PM  
This song is not about celebrities, but people like firemen or policemen who save lives, not just sit around being rich and famous.

anonymous June 18th, 2007 12:00AM  
Screw Kurt Cobain. It has nothing to do with him.

anonymous August 17th, 2007 03:35AM  
Dumbasses and your obsession with Cobain. Grohl clearly writes about ordinary heroes. The every day folks that make a difference and others look up to.

anonymous September 27th, 2007 04:43PM  
LOL at the person who said "Kudo's my hero" is KUrt DOuglas cobain.... geez.... you know that kudo's is a word too, right? An online dictionary says it means... "Acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement." That fits perfectly for telling a fireman or a cop or even just a normal person that they did a great job. (in the video, someone going in and saving a woman, baby and a dog from a burning building was a hero.) Yeah, sure to him Kurt was a hero, but to those of us who aren't big Kurt fans... He isn't. From my point of view, that wouldn't make a good album sale if they dedicated a whole album to someone that not a lot of their fans looked up to the same way. They have to make it universal.

CHAD October 2nd, 2008 03:04PM  
I often wondered about the inspiration for this one.Im pretty sure it wasn't Cobain, judging by the video, it would seem to be about all of the "unsung" heroes out there, keeping society moving forth from behind the curtains.

anonymous December 14th, 2008 02:32AM  
its funny to see that any song about death of someone close or any sad or more suttle song by the foo fighters is immediatly interpreted as a song for kurt, im sure there could be a refrence about him in atleast one song but not every single one, point being this song is just about the everyday average working man and respecting them to show that it doesnt take superpowers to be a hero, actualy foo fighters were pissed at John Mcain for using this song in one of their ad campains without artist approval, it was explained on the news and dave grohl explained what the song was about.

anonymous May 26th, 2009 05:09PM  
The song wasn't directly about Kurt but Dave had said many years later that every song is about his experiences so of course there would be apart of Kurt in some songs.

anonymous November 30th, 2009 04:18AM  
Even as recently as this week Dave has said my hero is about ordinary everyday hero's, saying 'you dont have to be in kiss to be a hero' But it has always been about jurt for me. Especially as the first thing I did upon finding out he was gone was to run away from the friend who told me and to tear the posters off my walls. "Too alarming now to talk about Take your pictures down and shake it out " & "Don’t the best of them bleed it out While the rest of them peter out " Sounds so like the "better to burn out than fade away" lyric kurt quoted. . . But I just think that's circumstatial. It was one of those 'new songs' that the foo fighters created during warm ups on tour, at the time the words meant not much, but in hindsight say so very much. Maybe on a subliminal level it is about Kurt, but dont think it was conciously written for him