The stories behind Next Door Now

• The Quieter Pulse Behind 'Next Door Now' — The second take of our home-care electropop song trades a little brightness for intimacy, without losing the beat.
• Next Door Now: When the Hospital Moves Into Your Living Room — An electropop postcard from hospital-at-home care, where the same monitor that watched one patient gets cleaned up and sent to the next house.

Lyrics

Next door now, the hospital move next

door

Truck pulls up with a box marked gentle

Monitor set on the kitchen table

Somebody far away is watching

Soft light blinking by the cable next

door now the hospital's next door now

same care no hallway just

a porch light and a couch,

somehow

When you're better,

it goes back and the truck gets wiped down

Clean, sent off to the next house, one monitor,

a hundred living rooms

Learning every kitchen in the county by now

Next door now, the hospital's next door

now

Same care, no hallway,

just a porch light and a couch somehow

Funny how a hallway can turn into a driveway

Funny how a nurse's station fits inside a hall closet

Still the same voice checking in on you

Just further down the road than it used to be

Next door now, the

hospital's next door now

same care, same care, no hallway,

just a porch light and a couch,

somehow, next door, right

next door,