The Quiet Keeper
Take B frames the lonely nocturnal vigil of the hospital equipment technician through swelling gospel keys and intimate vocal phrasing.
The stories behind The Quiet Keeper
- Gospel Dynamics and Reverent Solitude in The Quiet Keeper — Take B frames the lonely nocturnal vigil of the hospital equipment technician through swelling gospel keys and intimate vocal phrasing.
- Holding the Fragile Divide When the Hospital Sleeps — Take A of The Quiet Keeper explores the unseen duty of biomedical technicians who watch over critical medical gear in empty corridors.
Lyrics
Everyone has gone home
The corridors are empty
Just the machines
There there is a holy way
inside this quiet hall
when you're the only one who answers
when the wise call I
held an oxygen sensor like a sacred crystal stone
knowing that a father's breath
Depends on it alone
They see the shiny plastic
They see the sterile glass they never see the
fragile thread that lets the shadow pass
and every time I turn a screw I say a silent prayer
that love will find a way to meet the
Every bird in there
It's not just
It's not just me
It's the fragile divide
I'm the quiet keeper
in the dead of night holding the hands
of gadgets
in the pale blue light nobody asked the
biomed how heavy is it tall
to carry all the wires
Of a thousand stranger souls
Yet I would give my sleep away a hundred
times again To keep the life beat flowing
in the hearts of hurting men
I watched a family walking out into the morning sun
A mother holdin' up the boy whose race had just begun
She didn't know my tired eyes were watchin' through the pain
She didn't know my soul's a joint had taken out its pain
And that is all the heaven
That my weary soul could need
To see the bloom of living
From a hidden seed.
I am the quiet keeper
in the dead of night.
Holding the hands of gadgets in the pale
blue light. Nobody asked the bayou man
How heavy is the toll
To carry all the wires
Of a thousand strangers' souls
Yet I would give my sleep away
A hundred times again
To keep the life beat flowing
In the hearts of hurting men
I'll keep watch
Rest in peace, weary world
Rest in peace, weary world
Rest tonight
