Save one more for me

Boot prints in the red clay

Dust on my old dog tags

Sunrise in the rearview

But my mind keeps turning back

To that torn-up city of Ramadi

Smoke hangin’ in the air

I can still see his hands

Reaching up from under the concrete through the smoke

I remember saving one more

Just a Marine on a dusty road

Carried him out through the smoke and stone

Heart beating hard like it might explode

Now I'm home but I’m not sure

Who I am or what this hurt is for

My heart’s been shattered to the core

But I remember saving one more

Church bells on a Sunday

Everybody dressed in clean

I stand outside in the gravel

Staring past the evergreens

They say “thank you for your service”

Like that’s supposed to set me free

They don’t see the empty bedroom

Where sleep keeps desertin’ me

I remember saving one more

Just a Marine on a dusty road

Carried him out through the smoke and stone

Heart beating hard like it might explode

Now I'm home but I’m not sure

Who I am or what this hurt is for

My heart’s been shattered to the core

But I remember saving one more

Some nights I’m back on those streets(oh)

Hearing every broken cry

I talk to God in the dark

Ask Him why I stayed alive

If I can’t shake these shadows

If I can’t stitch what’s torn

He whispers through the silence

“Son, you carried one through the storm”

I remember saving one more

Just a Marine on a dusty road

Carried him out through the smoke and stone

Heart beating hard like it might explode

And maybe that’s what grace is for

A little light in a world at war

I’ll keep walking, cracked but sure

‘Cause I remember saving one more