[Verse 1]
My God, do you even know my name?
Are you changing up your mind over changes I never made for you?
We are no more than we'll ever be
With heaven on my mind, and hell, well I believe
In the stage lights, come down, breaking over me
Heaven, heaven is a dream, heaven, heaven is a dream
I believed but never would've been, heaven, heaven is a dream
Heaven, heaven is a dream, I

[Chorus]
I would do anything for you to love me
Like I'm an American hero, baby
Star-spangled in my manner shaking
Every man's hand in the presidential manor, you see
I would do anything to hear you say
There goes an American hero, darling
Call the press and tell 'em all
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities. "

[Post-Chorus]
If you really don't mind, take me as I am
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
Take your time, I understand
Believe me when I say I carry all my sins
And I would do anything for you to love me
Call me an American hero, oh
Call me an American hero, oh
Call me an American
[Verse 2]
I'll leave, if and when you want me to
When and if I've haunted you and if I miss you when you do not
Real talk, do you read fuck-up in my walk?
Do you see fuck-up on my face? Do I mean anything at all?
Don't say you love me if you do got nothing else to say to me
When heaven is a dream, and reality is fictional! Fictional!
Constantine and every host of christendom
What carried them, buried them, with every last one of us
America is just a dream
Just a dream, pretty thing
Nothing's ever what it seems
Just a dream, I still scream in my sleep
In my sleep I still scream that

[Chorus]
I would do anything for you to love me
Like I'm an American hero baby
Star-spangled in my manner
Shaking every man's hand in the presidential manor, you see
I would do anything to hear you say
There goes an American hero darling
Call the press and tell 'em all
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities. "

[Post-Chorus]
If you really don't mind, take me as I am
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
Take your time, I understand, believe me
When I say I carry all my sins
And I would do anything for you to love me
Call me an American hero, oh
Call me an American hero, oh
Call me an American hero, oh
Call me an American hero, oh
Call me an American