Lyrics
You're gripping a styrofoam cup from the Circle K on Gwinnett Street.
The coffee's been cold for an hour, but you feel the phantom heat.
It's 9 PM on a Tuesday, feels like a hundred degrees in here.
You just practice your polite nod, keep the smoke from getting clear.
[Chorus]
This is how you fight a fire.
You learn the shape of the blaze.
This is how you fight a fire.
You give 'em a backdraft smile for days.
[Verse 2]
"We appreciate your passion," he says, and straightens out his tie.
And you wonder if he knows the smell of a building before it dies.
These blueprints on the table, just a map of the coming flame.
A hundred years of front-porch ghosts, and he can't say a single name.
[Chorus]
This is how you fight a fire.
You learn the shape of the blaze.
This is how you fight a fire.
You give 'em a backdraft smile for days.
[Bridge]
What do you save when the whole damn block is catching?
You save your mother's hands folding laundry, the sound of your brother's name.
[Outro]
And you walk home slow.
Just ash on your tongue.
About Booker Fields
Booker Fields learned to sing over the drone of machinery at the Port of Savannah. The eldest of five, he dropped out of school at 16 to support his family, finding his voice in the back of a dockworker's workshop on a dusty upright piano. Now a carpenter restoring historic Southern homes, his songs are built with the same raw materials as his life: the weight of responsibility, the grace of hard…
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