Hero

JJ Heller frames "Hero" as an unresolved daily choice rather than a settled identity — "who will I be today, the lover or the mob" — naming two opposite possibilities without assuming which one wins before the day starts. "It all depends on the suffering and tragedy the day has brought" admits circumstance shapes the answer more than resolve alone.

"Submission without question, what can I offer that You don't give to me" turns the usual language of sacrificial offering back on itself, admitting nothing brought to God didn't originate with Him first. "You can see right through me" names spiritual exposure plainly, without the defensiveness that usually accompanies it.

"How many times will I deny the inside of my white-washed tomb" borrows Jesus's own confrontation with religious hypocrisy in Matthew, applying external respectability covering internal decay to personal self-examination rather than someone else's failure. "Oh Abba, please, embrace this wayward child" closes the song in the most intimate available term for God, asking for welcome specifically as a child who has wandered, not a stranger seeking a first introduction.