[ There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary.
Don't the best of them bleed it out,
While the rest of them peter out?
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around ]
[ These fights with your arms left beside.
One thing and one more says goodnight.
You've got the map come get to me.
These knuckles break before they bleed ]
[ Doctor, doctor, give me the news
I've got a bad case of lovin' you
No pill's gonna cure my ill
I've got a bad case of lovin' you ]
{4 Seasons of Jack}
[ I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven ]
{Season 1}
[ Feel the pain teaching us how much more we can take
Reminding us how far we've come
Let the pain burn away from our hearts
We have time to start all over again ]
[ He's magic and myth
As strong as what I believe
A tragedy with
More damage than a soul should see ]
{Season 2}
[ Hey! Wait! Knock me down, and I'll get up again.
Oh! Pain! A remedy that can erase your sting.
I’ll keep holding, and I’ll keep trying,
I feel this fight, it is slowly dying now
but I feel painless. ]
[ Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life ]
{Season 3}
[ Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you ]
[ The fearful always preyed upon your confidence
Did they see the consequence
When they pushed you around? ]
{Season 4}
[ Why is it not the time?
What is there more to learn?
I've shed this skin that I've been chipping at
And I've never quite returned ]
[ And here tonight while the stars are blacking out
With every hope and dream I've ever had in doubt
I've spent ten years trying to sing these doubts away
But the water keeps on falling from my eyes.
And heaven knows, heaven knows
I tried to find a cure for the pain ]
[ I am a hospital with many wards
I’m saving lives and fixing people's
Hearts, but mine’s not in it. ]
“I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how willing they are to make him incredibly complex. At heart, he’s a very pure hero but they have also made him willing to torture for a higher purpose. He’s willing to go to a really dark side of himself to get a bigger goal accomplished and that’s really wonderful.”
Jack is an incredibly tense dude. He’s a man that commits to what he believes in with everything that he is. To a degree, he’s got an adventuresome spirit. He’s the moral compass of the show and as the characters start to disintegrate because of the circumstances they are in, Jack will always be the guy that is leading by example, although he’s going to make mistakes.” – Cult Times, July 2005
"It's always something I've loved about the way Damon and J.J. were writing this character, that he's our hero, he's our guy, but he's also the kind of guy that, if he let himself go to the dark place, could do real serious snappage on a guy like Sawyer." –Zap2it May 2005
As for Jack being a natural leader, Fox says, "I think, way down, he is. He is an instinctual leader and an instinctual very heroic guy, but he has all this baggage and this really almost disturbing back story with his father. It's a strange relationship, but it's one that I think every single man can relate to."
Because of that baggage, Fox feels Jack needs to prove to himself that he can be a leader. "That will probably be Jack's path of redemption," he says, "getting through all of that to the core of himself and really becoming that guy who's not getting in his own way, not putting so much pressure on himself, just doing but not judging the consequences of it."
"When Jack Shephard goes, ''We have to go back,'' that means he's f---ing going back." - Entertainment Weekly, February 2008
"I think he is really hard on himself, but I think he is desperately fighting for the concept that human nature falls down on the side of good. I believe the island has something involved with human nature falling down on the side of bad.
That's why he wants to leave. He's very suspicious of the place." - The Daily Telegraph, February 2008
[ The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
I dare you to move ]
[ I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero until the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight ]
Fix You - Coldplay
There Goes My Hero - Foo Fighters
Bad Case of Lovin You - Robert Palmer
Simon - Lifehouse
Holding Out for a Hero - Frou Frou
How to Save a Life - The Fray
What A Man - Salt n' Pepa
Bigger Than My Body - John Mayer
Let That Be Enough - Switchfoot
Painless - Mae
Hospital - Tellison
The Cure for the Pain - Jon Foreman
When Finally Set Free - Copeland
A Traveller Dreams of Hope - Great Book of John
Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
This Is Why I'm Hot - Mims
Beautiful Disaster - Kelly Clarkson
Guardian Angel - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Ladies Choice - Hairspray
I'm Safer On an Airplane - Copeland
Walls - Emery
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
Dare You To Move – Switchfoot
[ I think I'm safer in an airplane.
I think I'm safer with my lungs full of smoke.
I think I'm safer on the jetway
than a world without hope. ]
[ You called me strong, you called me weak,
But still your secrets I will keep
You took for granted all the times I Never let you down
You stumbled in and bumped your head,
if Not for me then you'd be dead
I picked you up and put you back On solid ground ]