Idols and Heroes Joan Baez (Ft. David Harris)

[David]
There are really two kinds of public figures
Or two, as I really see in terms of abstract gatherings of them

I mean, there, there are idols and there are heroes
And they, they serve two different functions
And are present in two very different kind of societies
Which is, an idol is something that really exists beyond the people
It does their living for them
An idol is something that teaches people what they can't be
You know, I mean it exists in a sense
As a negation of the people who worship it

You know, Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is worshiped, you know
By countless numbers of people who know
They'll never be Marilyn Monroe
And because they know that they'll never be Marilyn Monroe
They worship Marilyn Monroe

I mean the other one is hero
And a hero is something that teaches people
What they can be
I mean a hero is an available model
You know, that doesn't exist as something
That's impossible to reach
But really exists as the embodiment
Of what everybody could be