[The Flying Mouse]

This song is the reverse side of the coin to Rock & Roll Mercenaries.Where a mercenary does it for the money and fame,a hero does it because he has to do it for himself.
The person I think who has put this best is Stephen King (for him it's writting,for me it's singing) who wrote in the foreword of his book Skeleton Crew when somebody asked him why he botherd...

All the same,you don't do it for the money,or you're a monkey.You don't think of the bottom line,or you're a monkey.You don't think of it in terms of hourly wage,yearly wage,ever life time wage,or you're a monkey.In the end you don't even do it for love,although it would be nice to think so.You do it because to not do it is suicide.And while that is tough,there are compensations I could never tell Wyatt about,because he is not that kind of guy.

I don't need to draw you a picture,do I?You don't do it for money;you do it because it saves you from feeling bad.A man or a woman able to turn his or her back on something like that is just a monkey,thats all.The story paid me by letting me get back to sleep when I felt as if I couldn't.I paid the story back by getting it concrete,which it wanted to be.The rest is just side effects.

Different subject,but the same reason.S.K. puts it better than I ever could.
Not a song I listen too often,but a message that is the very core of Rock & Roll.
10/10 Heroic.