Counted As a Harm
Liner notes on the cinematic-pop build behind a ballad about waste finally making the hazard list.
The stories behind Counted As a Harm
- The Quiet Swell Behind 'Counted As a Harm' — Liner notes on the cinematic-pop build behind a ballad about waste finally making the hazard list.
- Counted As a Harm: When Waste Made the Hazard List — An orchestral cinematic-pop ballad about the moment sustainability stopped being a values statement and became a ranked patient-safety hazard.
Lyrics
Count it as a harm now,
the air we leave behind
Every glove, every wrapper, every tray we empty
Used to just be waste before the shift was done now
it sits beside the alarms and the outages
counted with the dangers one by one
counted Count it as a harm now, not
just a cost, not just a pin.
Count it as a harm now,
the same list as the risks within.
nobody built the war to think about tomorrow
just to get the patient through today
but somewhere in the numbers someone measured
What we leave when we walk away
Count it as a harm now
Not just a cost, not just a pin
Count it as a harm now
The same list as the risks within
shouldn't cost the whole wide hoop
Maybe we can hold them both together,
the harm we treat and the harm we assume
Count it as a harm now, not just a
cost, not just a bid
Count it as a harm though
The same list as the risks within
Count it now at last
