00:00The first call came at midnight, smoke rolling through the rain
00:04Sirens screaming down the blacktop like a warning full of pain
00:10They pulled an old man from a hallway, found a woman by the stairs
00:17Every face behind those helmets carried someone else's prayers
00:23By morning they were shaking, but the radio screamed again
00:29Another house, another family, another fight they had to win
00:35They don't get time to feel it, they don't get time to fall
00:41They just climb back in the engine and answer one more call
00:51Fire leaves a shadow, that water never clears
00:56It burns into the silence, it follows through the years
01:03They save who they can carry, they lose what they can't stand
01:09And some nights they go home empty with ashes in their hands
01:18The third call came by daylight, a little house on Maple Lane
01:23Smoke was pushing from the windows, flames were crawling through the frame
01:30A mother screamed, my baby, and pointed to the second floor
01:36The captain didn't hesitate, he broke through that burning door
01:42They found the child in a bedroom, where the ceiling started to fall
01:48A little head beneath a blanket, too still to move it all
01:54They carried out that silence, wrapped in smoke and disbelief
02:01And every grown man standing there was swallowed by the grief
02:06Cause fire leaves a shadow, that water never clears
02:12It burns into the silence, it follows through the years
02:18They save who they can carry, they lose what they can't stand
02:25And some nights they go home empty with ashes in their hands
02:35Back at the hall, nobody spoke, helmets lined against the wall
02:41The rookie cried in the washroom, the captain stared down the hall
02:47One man punched a locker, one man called his wife
02:53One sat beside the engine, questioning his life
03:01They've seen barns burned down in winter
03:05Cars wrapped around a tree
03:08But nothing breaks a firefighter
03:13Like the child they couldn't free
03:21Now every time the pager screams
03:24They hear that mother's cry
03:27They smell the smoke from Maple Lane
03:30They see that bedroom light
03:33They still show up for strangers
03:36Still walk where angels fear
03:39But there's a weight beneath their turnout coats
03:43That never disappears
03:45Some drink it down in silence
03:49Some pray and some pretend
03:51Some laugh too loud at breakfast
03:55Just to feel alive again
03:59Cause fire leaves a shadow, that water never clears
04:06It burns into the silence, it follows through the years
04:13They save who they can carry, they lose what they can't stand
04:19And some nights they go home broken with ashes in their hands
04:25So here's to the ones who answer
04:28When the whole world runs away
04:31Who carry out our nightmares and still come back the next day
04:37But somewhere in that station
04:40When the lights are low and dim
04:43A squad still sees a child's face
04:51In the smoke that followed them
04:56In the smoke that followed them
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