[Intro: email dings, house piano stab] Ding Ding ding Oh no Reply all [Hook: house piano stabs, group answers] Reply all (reply all) One little cake and the whole world came (whole world came) Please remove me (remove me) Stop replying all (reply all) Eighty eight thousand inboxes and they all got the same Reply all (oh no) [Verse 1] Monday on the thirty first floor, Wacker Drive, nine o four Accounts payable, six of us, a ficus and a broken door Brenda turned fifty on Friday and the lemon cake was tall Half a sheet is in the break room going soft against the wall So I type it out quick, leftover cake, come grab a slice Bring a fork, don't be shy, first come, first served, be nice Clicked the list for Accounts, but the list below said All Didn't look, hit send, and I stepped out for a call Came back with a coffee and my inbox said nine hundred and four Eighty eight thousand people, forty countries, every floor [Hook: house piano stabs, group answers] Reply all (reply all) One little cake and the whole world came (whole world came) Please remove me (remove me) Stop replying all (reply all) Eighty eight thousand inboxes and they all got the same Reply all (oh no) [Verse 2] Lagos asks about the flavor and Manila sends a heart Dublin says remove me, and Detroit, and Rome, and Stuttgart Ohio in all capitals, STOP REPLYING ALL, to all So four hundred people reply all to say stop replying all Legal sends a memo with a typo in the header Then a lady in Toronto starts a thread about the weather Then a man in Sao Paulo asks if lemon cake has dairy And IT replies all, please don't reply all, it's getting hairy [Double-Time Switch: stacked, no commas] By ten the London office had a meeting on the meeting on my email about a cake Then Singapore replied with pictures of a better cake from March and Sydney swore that it was fake Some vice president in Houston wrote a page on leadership and teamwork and the value of a break And the server on the twentieth floor is sweating like a sprinter and the windows start to shake [Hook: house piano stabs, group answers] Reply all (reply all) One little cake and the whole world came (whole world came) Please remove me (remove me) Stop replying all (reply all) [Breakdown: kick, keyboard clacks, email dings] Ding (remove me) Ding (unsubscribe) Ding (per my last email) Ding (who is Brenda) [Chopper Burst: triplet bounce, flow switch] Remove me unsubscribe stop it who is Brenda is it lemon is it gluten free I'm on vacation until June Per my last email kindly circle back I'm on a beach in Portugal with one bar of signal and I'll answer you soon Every message hitting every inbox in a circle like a thousand people shushing in a little room Till the server hit the floor and every single screen in forty countries went to black at a quarter after noon [Verse 3] Four fifty eight, the floor is dead, and then I hear one final ding It's the CEO, Margaret Hale, replying all to everything Eighty eight thousand people stop and stare at one small screen She wrote, what kind of cake, and is there any left for me So I took a breath and I replied all, the bravest thing I ever did Lemon, thirty first floor, bring a fork, then I hit send and hid Tuesday morning there's a line from the elevator to the street Brenda's cutting slivers with a ruler so that everybody eats Margaret's at the back of it, a fork wrapped in a paper towel Says nobody reads my memos, but they all read yours, and how Says you're running internal comms on Monday, here's your key My first rule as the head of it, nobody reply all but me [Final Hook: house piano stabs, group answers] Reply all (reply all) One little cake and the whole world came (whole world came) Don't remove me (keep me on) Everybody reply all (reply all) Eighty eight thousand inboxes and they all got the same Reply all (oh yeah) [Outro: piano stabs, one last ding] Ding New message It's Brenda Is there more cake
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