[Verse 1]
Beginning of my shift
Brand new patch on my sleeve
Tones echo through the E R
No time to hesitate
Hollow point 9 mil
Point blank range
Now I'm on my knees
In a pool of your own blood
Red covered my hands
No amount of water
Could ever wash off
I was just twenty years old
[Prechorus]
Crowd and rush hour traffic All around us
Horns blowing and people talking
But I heard nothing
Just that high car chime
Dinging steady time
And the sound of you
Gasping for one more breath
Your chest fighting under my hands
[Chorus]
I hear that car chime in the dark
Like it’s still stuck in my ears
Thirty eight years gone by now
And I still fall apart
Smallest spark and I’m right back there
I did all that I knew
But I couldn’t pull you through
I swore on your name right then and there
I’d never fail anyone again
[Verse 2]
Radio cracked
But the words ran thin
Counting compressions
I lost my count
Sweat in my eyes
Smell of metal and rain
Med evac 5 miles out
Too far for us
Your fingers twitched when I called your name
Thought I caught one more breath you drew
Time wrote a line that I couldn’t cross
They called your T-O-D
But it branded me too
[Chorus]
I hear that car chime in the dark
Like it’s still stuck in my ears
Thirty eight years gone by now
And I still fall apart
Smallest spark and I’m right back there
I did all that I knew
But I couldn’t pull you through
I swore on your name right then and there
I’d never fail anyone again
[Bridge]
Every stranger on a stretcher
Every hand that slips in mine
You’re the shadow standing over me
You’re the clock I can’t rewind
So I double-check the airway
Count the rhythm in my head (in my head)
You taught me how a promise
Can outlive the dead
[Chorus]
I hear that car chime in the dark
Like it’s still stuck in my ears
Thirty eight years gone by now
And I still fall apart
Smallest spark and I’m right back there
I did all that I knew
And I carry that truth
I whisper your name now and then
Every heartbeat I help defend
Is me keeping that promise
I’ll never fail again
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