Black Canyon - Pedro The Lion

Just after midnight, Black Canyon freeway

A man when he could no longer deal

Stepped in front of 18 wheels

My uncle Ray was a paramedic

One of the first boots on the ground

He saw the man beneath the truck in several pieces

Obviously gone —

Time to call for cleanup

More flashing lights came

The cops blocked off the road

Ray’s pal from another engine

Came over with a gallows joke

Come on Ray, we can save him

Come on Ray, we can save him

Come on Ray

Ray’s pal went closer to see the broken body

Pretty quickly he came back acting queasy

Sayin' «Ray, you won’t believe what that man said to me:»

«Get this truck off my back

Don’t know what I expected, but that hurt really bad

Where were my people at?

Coiled up like a rattlesnake

Waiting to attack»

Next up the female fire engine driver strolled

To see the body solo when Ray declined to go

Against her better judgment, her training and her plan

She recognized in those pieces a brokenhearted man

Compartments came apart then

Compartments came apart then

She gathered herself and crept back to the truck

Remembering all of the times she’d nearly given up

She had to be twice as human, and just as tough

She knew it was never enough, never enough

To get this truck off my back

Don’t know what I expected, but that hurt really bad

Where were my people at?

Coiled up like a rattlesnake

Waiting to attack

Tell them your stories

If you carry them by yourself

The gorier the details the more you walk alone in Hell