Side Channels Starve

Title: Side Channels Starve [intro: dry vocal, close mic] If the file lives twice the truth went missing [Verse 1] There was a copy with a better name there was a shortcut with a friendly face there was a folder someone liked more there was a final near the old final by the door and everybody knew where the real one was until the real one split and both of them talked one had the date one had the change one had the comment one had the blame [Hook] if the file lives twice the truth went missing if there is drift there is no system side channels starve when the path holds weight authority lies where the record is made [Verse 2] Phone is for intake phone is for review phone is not the room where canon gets to move chat is the workbench Drive has the spine local is a ghost with a borrowed line download it once watch it lose its face send it back clean to the lawful place archive the past before it learns to speak old truth gets loud when the active path is weak [Hook] if the file lives twice the truth went missing if there is drift there is no system side channels starve when the path holds weight authority lies where the record is made [drop: bass locks to the phrase “record is made”] Convenience smiles with a duplicate mouth says I know a way says just send it out says no one will care says this is faster then the shortcut lives and becomes the master [Verse 3] Review means motion is actually blocked not a soft little note in a wandering box approved means the gate released not somebody felt good and forwarded the piece access is law not kindness with keys wrong hands in the folder make the room hard to read technology mirrors authority or technology lies if the role cannot move it the tool should deny [Hook] if the file lives twice the truth went missing if there is drift there is no system side channels starve when the path holds weight authority lies where the record is made [interruption: spoken, flat] No orphan drafts No private canon No screenshot truth No final final No shadow folder No friendly override No thread as vault No shortcut alive [Verse 4] Side channels do not die because we scold them side channels die when the main path holds them make the right way faster than the leak make the wrong way visible make the ghost thing speak do not train the shortcut then blame the floor do not leave two truths and ask which one is more if silence is the system then the system is gone a notification missed is a door left on [Final Hook] if the file lives twice the truth went missing if there is drift there is no system side channels starve when the path holds weight authority lies where the record is made [outro: vocal gets colder, beat thins] Drive has the spine thread is the bench archive the past before it talks again review blocks motion release makes state side channels starve when the path holds weight if the file lives twice the truth went missing