"Hero" -- Skillet

This song, in my opinion, could have two meanings… one understanding could be that it is speaking of Christ, while the other could be seen as one’s own inner strength.  I feel like an individual’s religious views could determine the way in which he/she interprets this meaning.

If you look at this song in the sense that it is referring to Christ, then I feel like the artist is trying to show how fed up we can come to be with the world that we live in; how we can become so broken that we finally realize that we need something greater than ourselves to live.  We recognize that we need a hero to save us… from ourselves, and everything else that is around us.  We see that we need Christ to be our strength in life… that we need to give in to the power of God and allow Him to take us and become our hero.

Now, looking at this song from a non-religious perspective, I think that the artist is trying to show that common, everyday people can do amazing things.  I feel like this song is saying that when times get tough, and when things in this world become too great to handle, we want to wait on a hero to come and save us.  However, when this “hero” is needed the most, we can rise to the occasion and our own inner strength will prevail.  It will show itself when the time is right.  This interpretation of this song is ultimately saying that anyone, absolutely anyone, can be a hero.