[Verse 1: Qawwali-style male lead, measured and hard over huge live drums and the harmonium riff] Haan, Route 9, two o'clock, and I'm rollin' through the rain One deer, one swerve, and the world turns upside down in the lane Roof on the gravel and the gravel on my teeth Smoke comin' through the vents and somethin' burnin' underneath Belt locked tight, and the door won't move a hair Tellin' myself out loud that I'm not dyin' there Then a hand at the window and a knife at the strap Voice like a brother sayin' sun lo, I got your back Pulled me through the glass by my collar and my arm Laid me on the shoulder half a field from harm Woke up in a hospital with stitches in my brow And a paper sayin' some folks stopped, no names, no how [Hook: Qawwali lead, full voice, handclaps on two and four, tabla rolling] Haan, you pulled me out, and you never left a name Walked into the fire, and you walked out just the same I been lookin' every town, I been lookin' every spot I owe you one, and one is all I got [Verse 2: Qawwali lead, rising, tabla rolls driving under the bars] So I put it in a song and took the song on the road Sang it in a hundred rooms to find out who I owed Every night a stranger waitin' by the merch and the door Sayin' brother, it was me, I pulled you off the floor First a trucker out of Tulsa with his knuckles all in scars Then a nurse who works the night side, sayin' I was in the cars Then a kid on a bike who couldn't drive a car at all Then a grandmother whose palms were burned, holdin' up the wall Can't all be the hands, I know, can't all be the voice But they all got that look of somebody with no choice [Hook: Qawwali lead, full voice, handclaps on two and four, tabla rolling] Haan, you pulled me out, and you never left a name Walked into the fire, and you walked out just the same I been lookin' every town, I been lookin' every spot I owe you one, and one is all I got [Verse 3: Qawwali lead, clap swell on "all of you", harmonium opening to full chords, high qawwali cry] So I stopped tryin' to find the one, I quit the guessin' game If the one who saved me's out there, then they all deserve the name The trucker pulled a boy out of a river in the spring The nurse pulled out a mother, and she didn't take a thing The kid pulled out his neighbor when the kitchen caught on fire Grandmother pulled her husband from the creek below the wire Sun lo, all of you, every one who ever stopped Every hand that ever reached in when the whole world dropped Now I keep a knife and blanket in the cargo of my car Pull off every shoulder where the hazards say you are 'Cause the debt I owe ain't somethin' I can settle with a sum I can only stop for somebody, and pay it out in one [Final Hook: Qawwali lead, everything open, handclaps on every beat] Haan, you pulled me out, and you never left a name Walked into the fire, and you walked out just the same I been lookin' every town, I been lookin' every spot I owe you one, and one is all I got [End]
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