Two vocalists perform a duet of "Holding Out for a Hero," weaving the original song with improvised poetic passages. They trade lines about longing and desperation, building intensity through vivid imagery of fire, storms, and thunder in a call-and-response structure.
If only I could find a guy who would make the first move.
If only I could find a guy who, when he went to kiss me, he'd take the toothpick out of his mouth. If only I could find a guy—
Oh!
Are all the good men gone? And where are all the gods? Yeah! I scream, I circle, leap to fight the rising eye. To know in the pale white night, hope unseen. Late at night, I toss and I turn. I toss and I turn.
And I dream of what I need. I need a hero.
Somewhere after midnight in my wild despair, somewhere just Just beyond my reach, there's someone reaching out to me. Beyond the thunder and rising from the heat, it's gonna take a Superman to sweep me off my feet. I need a hero! I'm holding out for a hero till the end of the night. He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero! I can swear there's someone somewhere watching me.
Through the wind and the chill and the rain and the storm and the flood, I can feel this approach like a fire in my blood. Like a fire in my blood.
Like a fire in my blood.
Like a fire in my blood. Like a fire in my—
I'm a hero at the end of the night he's got to be strong he's got to be.
He's got to be soaring he's got to be soon and he's got to be Larger than life Larger than. You are a hero!
