The stories behind The Shadow Beneath the Hospital Floor

• Intimate Strings and Soaring Belts in The Shadow Beneath the Hospital Floor — Take C expands the ballad into a sweeping symphonic hymn punctuated by a gentle final lullaby.
• Quiet Devotion in The Shadow Beneath the Hospital Floor — A moving theatrical ballad explores the late-night repairs that safeguard pediatric wards.

Lyrics

Two in the morning,

the city is quiet

And here in the dark

I keep watch

They will never know my face

They will never know my name

When they walk out through the lobby

Free of sickness,

free of pain

They thank the clever surgeon

And the nurse beside the bed

For the second chance at living and the gentle words

they said And I sit here in the basement

Where the steam pipes softly weep

With a magnifying lens

While the troubled patients sleep

Soldering a pathway Through a microscopic

space An invisible devotion

In an unremembered place

And I wonder if they know

As they breathe the healing air

That a stranger's quiet hands

Answered every whispered prayer

I am the shadow beneath the hospital

floor

The silent guardian standing by the cellular door

No buckets of roses, no parades across the

lawn

Just a gentle green reflection at the breaking of the

dawn

Yet every single heartbeat that is saved and

restored

Is the greatest, sweetest reward

A Biomed could crave

I wipe the flots away I close the

casing tight Carry the repaired monitor

Into the quiet night

I look into the room

Where a sleeping child lies

Watched by the machine

Beneath the sterile nursery skies

I need no standing ovation I

need no shining shining crown

As long as the lifelines never falter

or go down

I am the shadow beneath the hospital

floor

The silent guardian standing by the cellular

door

No buckets of roses

No parades across the lawn

a gentle green reflection at the breaking of the dawn

every single heartbeat that is saved and

restored

is the greatest sweetest reward

A biomed