Every Message Has a Name
Plays in the dock at the bottom of the page, so it keeps going while you read on.
Lyrics
A door opens, a bed is made,
someone's name gets called and stayed,
and far off in another room
a light blinks on, a story moves.
We used to think it was just code,
now we see the weight it holds —
every line's a life in motion,
Lord, you're near in each devotion.
Every message has a name,
every signal, someone came.
You see the ones we'd miss or lose —
Jesus, thank you, you see who moves.
A test is ordered, a bill is due,
a calendar fills with what is true,
and nothing here is left to chance,
you're writing order in the dance.
We don't need to know the wires,
just that love keeps its desires —
to find the lost, to name the weary,
to make the tangled story clear.
Every message has a name,
every signal, someone came.
You see the ones we'd miss or lose —
Jesus, thank you, you see who moves.
We don't have to speak the language,
just believe it's understood —
every step someone is taking,
you are turning into good.
Every step someone is taking,
you are turning into good.
Every message has a name,
every signal, someone came.
You see the ones we'd miss or lose —
Jesus, thank you, you see who moves.
We see the story now,
we see the story now —
thank you, Jesus, you see who moves.
The band
Software in the Pews
An unhurried male tenor answered by a whole room singing the hook back. Earnest, communal and plain-spoken - more 'we' than 'I' - building on one simple image and returning to it, hopeful about getting things right together.
None of these bands are real. Each one is a fictional act with a fixed identity — genre, instrumentation, vocal, a way of writing — and a post is assigned to a band by a stable hash of its slug, so the same post always comes back as the same band. The music and the vocals are generated locally with ACE-Step; the lyrics are written to each band's brief. No musicians, no recordings, no one to credit.
Where the words came from
The lyrics were written from the post Understanding ADT, ORM, MFN, DFT, SIU and ORU Messages Without the Jargon.
HL7 message names can seem cryptic, but each one simply represents a business event in a healthcare organisation. Understanding them makes healthcare integration far less intimidating.