Like a Big Damn Hero (rough cut) (Patreon)

Life can be tough. It's tougher if you don’t have good people looking after you. 

That’s why we have family. That's why we have friends. Folks who take care of one another. They put the needs of you before themselves. 

I see how important this even more so as a parent.

"Like a Big Damn Hero" was inspired by the Firefly episode "Safe". The episode is about finding safety and friends who look after one another. Like a family. They take of you. They are loyal to a fault.

Zoë Alleyne Washburne knows all about loyalty. Her crew is her family. You see that in the way she takes care of everyone on Serenity. She's the backbone of the crew. She will fight and die for her family. 

She may not have died. But her husband did in the movie Serenity. He gave his life exposing a terrible crime by the Alliance.

But if you haven't read the graphic novels, you might not know that Zoe's family grew nevertheless. She gave birth to Wash's baby. Here name is Emma.

This is Zoe's song to her daughter, Emma, on how to survive when the world seems cold and out to get you. 

Lyrics

Sometimes life will take you places you weren't expecting to goSitting by a Shepherd’s side, his body filled with holesYou will fight many battles, but the ones you win are the ones with friends by your sideHold my hand and together we stand. Til we are ready to rise. 

Home, my dear, it is right here with your crew nearby Don’t have to agree. 'Cause we’re family. I'll wipe the tear from your eye.No one will make you do what you don’t want, or they will face my wrathMess with you, hell, they mess with me, I’m heading on the warpath

When life has you, tied to a stake, the fire's climbing higherWe'll stand in those flames, and share the pain, and we will never expire.Your family is here, to light up the night, while the smoke it billows Keep your heart of gold, and never fold, like a big damn hero.

Your daddy, dear, I’m sorry he’s not here, to watch you grow strongHe fought with pride, but then he died, to right a terrible wrongTears me inside, but when we fly, I feel his leaf on the wind Where’er life goes, you’ll always know, that’s how your story begins.