New Jersey - Turnpike Current
New Jersey - Turnpike Current follows a biomedical technician keeping busy hospitals running, shift after shift.
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- Turnpike Current: New Jersey's Anthem for Keeping Hospitals Moving — New Jersey - Turnpike Current follows a biomedical technician keeping busy hospitals running, shift after shift.
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I'm in the service elevator, two by two, I'm in the service elevator, two by two, I'm in the service elevator on my knee.
A ventilator's waiting where it needs to be. I test every circuit,
check every little sound
When the night shift needs a heartbeat I'm the one they call around
From Newark down to
Camden
The whole state's wide awake
No room for loose connection
No second chance to make
New Jersey, keep that current running
From the shore towns to the towers humming I turn the wrench,
I check the line
Keep the hospital moving, one machine at a time
New Jersey, let the red lights roll
Working class fire instead
pressure climbs and the long day starts I keep the current moving
I keep the current moving
By noon I'm near the parkway
Saw the air in the breeze
The boardwalk sign is rattling
Someway through the trees
But the monitors are beeping up
In room 402 So I chase a phantom on
Until the numbers come back true
Lunch is half a sandwich
It's beside the loading bay
A nurse says she saved us
And I wave the words away
There's a hundred quiet heroes
In the halls behind the door
Keeping fragile moments steady
Keeping families from the floor
From Paterson to the
Pine Barrens Every road has got a load
We carry what we're handed
Then we carry what we're all
New Jersey Keep that current running
From the shore towns to the towers humming I turn the wrench
I check the line
Keep the hospital moving, one machine at a time
New Jersey, let the red lights roll
Working class fire instead of soul
When the pressure climbs and the long day starts I keep the current movin'
I keep the current movin'
If the pump goes quiet I'm already there
If the screen goes dark I'm climbin' the stairs
Not lookin' for a headline, not waitin' for a sign
Just one more roommate ready, one more life held in time
New Jersey, keep that current runnin'
From Atlantic West to the engines drumming I turn the wrench, I
check the line Keep the hospital moving, one machine at a time
New Jersey, here the host they roam
Stealin' the hands of a stubborn soul
When the pressure climbs on the longest thought
So I keep the current movin'
Turnpike sunrise,
toolbox by my side
New Jersey workin', nowhere left to hide
One more call, one more lie
Keepin' it alive through the longest night
I keep the current moving
