HELLO WORLD [Verse 1] Hello, world I know you’re in there Three screens glowing Static in your hair I see the pawprint on your desk The cable nest below I know what you put in your cup And it ain’t coffee, no You know who you are You don’t need naming Something’s on fire You call it gaming [Pre-Chorus] You cleared the cache You killed the thread You raised a daemon from the dead You pinged the host The host pinged back Nobody ask What happened to the stack [Chorus] Hello, world Are you listening? There’s a little green light Still flickering Hello, world We made it through Nobody knows What the hell you do But when the whole thing crashes At a quarter past two Hello, world We’re calling you [Verse 2] There’s a ghost in the machine again A bug nobody can find Python curled around the backend Eating everybody’s time The cloud is down The root is lost Someone changed a line of code Nobody knows exactly when Or why it now explodes There’s cookies in the browser No cookies in the tin You’ve opened seventeen windows And can’t remember which one’s in [Pre-Chorus] You checked the logs You blamed the port You found an undocumented sort One tiny slash One missing brace Six grown adults Have left the place [Chorus] Hello, world Are you listening? There’s a little green light Still flickering Hello, world We made it through Nobody knows What the hell you do But when the whole thing crashes At a quarter past two Hello, world We’re calling you [Bridge] Have you tried turning it off? Have you tried turning it on? Have you tried looking innocent Until everybody’s gone? It’s not a bug It’s a feature It’s not broken It’s bespoke The server’s merely resting Please don’t touch it. That’s not a joke. [Final Chorus] Hello, world Still listening? All those little green lights Still flickering Hello, world Here’s one for you For keeping the impossible Mostly coming true For every ghost and daemon Every bug you somehow knew Hello, world We haven’t got a clue But apparently— you do.
