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The COVID Floor

from Better Late Than Never by Mike Kuster

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about

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most of the world a year ago, Mike Kuster’s wife, Emily, was assigned to the COVID Unit at their local hospital as one of its nurses. The horrors that she witnessed and the stress it caused her took a toll that Mike and their children witnessed from six feet a way and through a mask.
After a few weeks, Mike wrote “The COVID Floor” while sitting in his den knowing that Emily was again facing this nightmare of unknowns. He recalls, “everything was unknown then. No one really knew how it spread. So, the nurses were sealed in with the patients without the regular support services of the hospital.” Every day was a new revelation of how bad things were and how unprepared the entire system was for this.
After playing the for his daughter, she insisted that he share it. He played it for a friend who also insisted that he share it. “So, I grabbed my guitar and recorded an acoustic version sitting in my den and shared the video social media,” Mike shares. The response he got was overwhelming. He was getting messages and phone calls from people he had not talked to in years. “I felt it must be an okay song when my sister, who is also a nurse, called to tell me that the song had her in tears,” he joked.

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She’s living in a nightmare
Like all of us she’s scared
But these scenes aren’t in her dreams

She can’t kiss her children
She can’t touch her husband like
She always would before.


She’s off to the hospital
Another shift on the COVID floor
Exposed to the invisibile enemy
That keeps her locked behind her door.
OOOOH THE COVID FLOOR
OOOOH THE COVID FLOOR

She can’t risk exposing them
her beautiful children and her
husband who holds down the fort

She loves them all from far away
a distance of six feet
and cries when she shuts the door.


She’s off to the hospital
Another shift on the COVID floor
Caring for a stranger all alone
who may die seeing only her eyes.
OOOOH THE COVID FLOOR
OOOOH THE COVID FLOOR

Then back at home she makes
her way to the laundry
to clean any germs from her clothes

She runs to the bathroom
to take a long shower
tries to scrub off disease.

She’s off to the hospital
Another shift on the COVID floor
She’ll work all night without proper PPE
Risking it all just to do her job.
OOOOH THE COVID FLOOR
OOOOH THE COVID FLOOR


She’s living in a nightmare
Real reasons to be scared
Protecting her family

credits

from Better Late Than Never, track released January 8, 2021
Produced by Dr. Ford
Written by Mike Kuster
Vocals by Mike Kuster
Guitars by Chris Condon
Bass Guitar by Caleb Mundy
Keyboards and Drum by Dr. Ford
Steel Guitar by Gary Carter

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Mike Kuster Walkersville, Maryland

Mike Kuster filled his debut album, Better Late Than Never, with country songs he wrote grounded in a love for traditional country music. Mike tapped a group of award-winning musicians to bring his songs to life including Dr. Ford, Chris Condon (guitars), Caleb Mundy (bass guitar), Smith Curry (pedal steel guitar and dobro), Gary Carter (steel guitar), and Michael Cleveland (fiddle and mandolin). ... more

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