When The Sirens Are Gone

It was a dark and stormy night Nor'Easter rollin' in It's a long twelve hours The power's out again I pray for inner strength and that we don't lose no lives Just another day in a first responders eyes Half a cup of coffee's gone The first run comes in A car slid off the road, there's a family trapped within My heart beats like a hammer I can barely catch my breath I'm thinking the worst and hoping for the best Yeah we ain't super heroes we're just ordinary people Trying to make a difference in the first on every scene It's a heavy heavy burden to carry all this hurting When you can't unsee the things you've seen It keeps going on When those sirens are gone Now my shift is finally over I gotta deal with what's mine And try to find a way to leave those tragedies behind So I hug my two children, I kiss on my wife Just another day in a first responder's life Yeah we ain't super heroes we're just ordinary people Trying to make a difference in the first on every scene It's a heavy heavy burden to carry all this hurting When you can't unsee the things you've seen It keeps going on When those sirens are gone Flashing lights fill the air Broken bodies everywhere Another bad dream is stealing my sleep 'Cause we ain't super heroes we're just ordinary people Trying to make a difference in the first on every scene And it's a heavy heavy burden to carry all this hurting When you can't unsee the things you've see It keeps going on When those sirens are gone It keeps going on When those sirens are gone