The stories behind Two of Us, Every Floor

• Liner Notes: The Quieter Ending on "Two of Us, Every Floor" — Same gospel chorus, a different question at the very end: this take asks who's holding the light instead of just repeating the hook.
• Two of Us, Every Floor, and the Department That Was Only Two People — A gospel-choir anthem grew out of a real trade-press profile of a two-person biomedical engineering department covering an entire trauma center.

Lyrics

Just the two of us, just the two of us

172 beds in this house

10 ,000 souls come through and we don't shut it down

50 ,000 more come running through the door, just the two of

us, and we don't ask for more, just the two of us, every

door, every door, every floor, the two of us, and the whole

house, too, and the whole house, too, two of us,

and the whole house, too, two of us,

carrying you through. The ventilators lined up

And the whole world stopped

The monitors, the pumps

We worked around the clock

Oh, two of us walked in

When the halls went still

Oh, two of us walked out and we always win,

just the two of us, every door, every door, every floor,

two of us, and the whole house too, and the whole house too,

two of us, and the whole house too,

two of us, they're carrying you through, how

many hands, two hands, how many doors, every door, how many nights,

How many nights, however many more

Yeah,

Oh,

oh,

That's all it took, just the two of us

That's all it took, just the two of us

Two of us