Synthetic Medic · Song lyrics

Wash In, Wash Out

Genre: Gregorian Chant
Released: August 24, 2026
Length: 4:30

The words

Lyrics

Intro

Kyrie eleison Lava manus Ante intrare Et exeundo

Verse 1

Morning light through chapel windows Rounds begin with solemn grace Every room a sacred calling Every patient, holy place Before we cross the sacred threshold Cleanse the hands of worldly stain Leave behind what cannot follow Enter pure, depart the same

Pre-Chorus

No unseen burden shall we carry No unseen burden shall remain

Chorus

Wash in Wash out Lava manus Keep infection out Wash in Wash out Semper mundus Cleanse without a doubt Clean hands Save lives Wash in Wash out

Verse 2

Touch the rail and touch the monitor Hang the fluids, check the line Listen, comfort, chart and answer Every task a sacred sign When the work within is finished Before leaving through the door Cleanse again with quiet purpose As we've done ten thousand times before

Bridge

Ante tactum Wash in Post tactum Wash out Lava manus Semper mundus Ante intrare Wash in Post discessum Wash out Clean hands Save lives

Chorus 2

Wash in Wash out Wash in Wash out Clean hands Save lives Lava manus Lava manus Amen

About this song

Walk through enough hospitals and eventually you'll stop consciously noticing the words.

They're above the sinks.

They're beside the hand sanitizer.

They're posted outside patient rooms.

Wash in. Wash out.

It's simple advice attached to something genuinely important: clean your hands before patient contact, and clean them again when you're finished.

Synthetic Medic simply decided this sacred infection-control ritual deserved the musical treatment it had apparently been waiting centuries to receive.

Gregorian chant.

“Wash In, Wash Out” imagines hand hygiene not as a modern hospital reminder, but as an ancient rite passed down through solemn halls by generations of monks.

The patient room becomes sacred ground.

Hand sanitizer becomes ceremonial purification.

Routine infection prevention becomes a centuries-old tradition performed with reverence, harmony and just enough Latin to make the whole thing sound historically legitimate.

Of course, medieval monks did not actually write a Gregorian chant about hospital hand sanitizer.

But they absolutely should have.

Underneath the absurdity, the message is deliberately uncomplicated.

Hands touch rails, monitors, equipment, patients and countless other surfaces throughout a shift.

Infection prevention isn't glamorous.

It isn't complicated.

And it matters.

So observe the ancient rite.

Wash in.
Wash out.
Clean hands.
Save lives.

Amen.

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