Just Fire and Gas
How a roots-reggae arrangement's steady pulse matches a song about a job defined by quiet, methodical attention.
The stories behind Just Fire and Gas
- The One-Drop Groove That Carries Just Fire and Gas — How a roots-reggae arrangement's steady pulse matches a song about a job defined by quiet, methodical attention.
- Just Fire and Gas Gives a Quiet Surveyor a Whole Song — A roots-reggae tribute to the one member of a hospital survey team whose entire job is fire protection and medical gas, and nothing else.
Lyrics
One man walked the halls, don't ask about the
charts
he don't check your blood don't check your pace
don't even look twice at a
patient's face
He's got one job, wearing his badge
Fire and gas,
that's the only edge
Just fire and gas,
just fire and gas
Walk in the halls where the
pipelines pass Just fire and gas,
just fire and gas
One quiet man who don't let
it pass
He'll find the door that don't quite seal
He'll find the valve that don't quite feel
He don't check pulses,
don't check the trend
He's there so the building
Don't need it sent
Just fire and gas
Just fire and gas
Walk in the halls
Where the pipelines pass
Just fire and gas
Just fire and gas
One quiet man Who don't let it
pass
No stethoscope Around his neck
No chart to sign
No patient to check
Just a nose for smoke and an ear for the hiss,
the whole building rests, on a job
like this, just fire and gas,
just fire and gas.
Walk in the halls where the pipelines pass
Just fire and gas,
just fire and gas
One quiet man who don't let it pass
One man walk the halls
Fire and gas
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