[Verse 1]
You came in on a stock trailer
Hip bones showin through your hide
Scared of every gate and shadow
White of terror in your eyes
Name tag from some old auction
Number where a name should be
They said, "Son, you're gonna save him"
But I felt him saving me
[Chorus]
We say we're rescuing horses
From the wire and the bruises and rust
But they're the ones mending
All the busted-up pieces of us
Yeah, I gave you a pasture
You gave me a heart pulled true
I put a halter on your head
You whispered, "Rescue me too"
[Verse 2]
Long nights in that drafty barn
Pourin feed with frozen hands
Talking low and soft and steady
Like you might not understand
'Til you leaned that tired shoulder
Right against my broken chest
And every hurt I'd never spoken
Rose and settled, came to rest
[Chorus]
We say we're rescuing horses
From the hunger and the rain and the rope
But they're the ones teaching
Every stubborn old bone how to hope
Yeah, I gave you a pasture
You gave me a heart pulled true
I put a halter on your head
You whispered, "Rescue me too"
[Bridge]
Now your hoofbeats in the morning
Sound like prayers across this ground
You don't speak a word of English
But you turn my whole life around
You're part of my soul now
Running through everything I do
When I open up my mouth
It's your courage coming through
[Outro]
We say we're rescuing horses
But I know the deeper truth
I gave you a home on this hillside
You gave my voice back to me too