Hero - Skillet

This song, Hero, is from the Christian rock band Skillet, formed in Memphis, Tennesse in 1996. Currently, the band has four members: John (lead vocal and bass) and Korey Cooper (rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), who are married, Jen Ledger (drums, vocals) and Seth Morrison (lead guitar). Since its creation, some of its members have come and gone, leaving John Cooper as the only remaining original member. In their musical career, two of their eight albums have received Grammy nominations, which are Collide, 2003, and Comatose, 2006.  Their musical style was described as "alt-metal, hard rock, post-grunge, and soaring alternative rock" by James Christopher Monger, an allmusic reviewer.

At first sight, it might seem that this song talks about Jesus, because its principal meaning is beeing saved by someone when he is lost and helpless "just in time" and this someone is Jesus. Personally, I'm not Christian so I won't be seing the meaning of this song refering to Jesus Christ.
In general, this song talks about someone being lost in himself, losing faith and being completely desperate. This person seems to bear at the same time a great responsability to what he has to be up to, and it's the reason he feels so helpless, because he doesn't feel like he can. In a last moment of hope he cries out for help "Someone save me from the hate" "I need a hero to save me now". In the video we see a succession of people, a firefighter, a doctor/nurse, a police officer, a soldier, who are every day life heroes. These heroes are those people in whom we leave the responsability of preserving our safety and health. In the progresion of the song we see that this desperate person gains confidence and starts to have a stronger attitude, he starts behaving like a hero, fighting for what is right and speaking out loud so he can be heard and do what he's supposed to do. Also, in the video they stand still even in the storm/rain to represent that evene in difficulties they don't back down. Besides, the song talks about the kind of world we live in and we see that he describes things like "war", "family torn" or "kill" with the word "just" so we can get the idea that it is something regular, that our world is losing itself in disgraceful events "Just another day in the world we live". Finally, the song says "who's gonna fight for what's right" clearly asking for a hero to do so, and, as things evolve, he becomes this hero that he is, "I've got a hero Livin' in me", that he needed at the begining.
This person, who could be anyone, changes completly throughout  the song, he strats being a helpless and desperate person and then becomes a hero, someone who is going to do the right things, riskng everything for what is right "I will be ready to die". In my opinion, this song shows what a hero can be and do, that even if it's scary and risky it is worth doing what you think is right.

This song is related to the notion of Myths and Heroes, because it talks about doing the right thing and fighting for what you believe even if that means to risk everything you have, because it is worth it. Besides, everyone want to protect what they have in every possible way, and this song encourages you to do so even if it scares you, because everyone needs a hero. It deals with the aspect of what a hero is or represent and the aspect that everyone ca be a hero.