TRL-Search & Rescue

Intro

I can still hear the rotors

Even when the sky goes quiet

Some sounds follow you home

Verse 1

Boots in the mud

blood on my sleeve

somebody's praying

for somebody to breathe

Names in my ear

smoke in my eyes

we came for the missing

we don't leave them behind

I learned how to walk

where the good Lord won't go

learned how to carry

more weight than I show

They tell us bring 'em home

So that's what we do

We go into the darkness

searching for you

Pre-Chorus

And if I don't come back

don't you call me brave

Just remember my name

and the ones we couldn't save

Chorus

Search and rescue

Through the fire through the rain

Search and rescue

Calling out your name

We'll walk through hell

to bring somebody home

But when the smoke clears

and we're standing there alone

Who comes searching for us

Who comes searching

for us

Verse 2

I counted twelve going in

I counted twice coming out

That's a habit you learn

when you've buried enough

There's dirt in my mouth

and a ringing in my head

somebody else's blood

has dried into my hands

Don't ask what I saw

Don't ask what I've done

Don't tell me it's over

just because we won

There's an empty seat

where a brother should be

And everybody says

thank God it wasn't me

But nobody means it

Not really

Pre-Chorus

'Cause every man I carried

left something behind

And every man I buried

took something of mine

Chorus

Search and rescue

Through the fire through the rain

Search and rescue

Calling out your name

We'll walk through hell

to bring somebody home

But when the smoke clears

and we're standing there alone

Who comes searching for us

Who comes searching

for us

Bridge

I know how to find you

Give me a grid

Give me a name

Give me a photograph

I'll cross every river

Kick down every door

Dig through the rubble

until my hands bleed

I know how to rescue you

But some nights

I sit at the edge of my bed

with my boots on the floor

and I don't know

how to rescue me

Silence

Final Chorus

Search and rescue

Can anybody hear me

Search and rescue

There's still somebody here

I walked through hell

and brought your loved ones home

Now the smoke has cleared

and I'm standing here alone

Who comes searching for us

For the ones nobody sees

Who comes searching for us

when the missing one

is me

Outro

Boots by the doorway

Blood washed from my hands

Another name I'll remember

that nobody else can

Tomorrow they'll call me

Tomorrow I'll go

Back into the darkness

to bring somebody home

Search and rescue

Search and rescue

Just don't forget

to search for us too