[SPOKEN INTRO — SYSTEM VOICE] Motion detected. (Click. Click.) [VERSE 1] Level six, the shutter down, paint worn thin in turning arcs. My heel found grit and slipped off-line; one white strip woke, then five replied. Jaw still locked, my stride still straight, I traced the arrows toward the gate. Then click by click, from bay to bay, the ceiling copied every swerve I made. [PRE-CHORUS] One click. Two. The dark gave ground. I meant to cut straight through— then my heel found the count. [CHORUS 1] Motion detected— (click-click, glow) step left, lights up, step right, whole row. No switch in my hand, no move pre-set. I move and the concrete wakes wherever I step. [POST-CHORUS] Heel-toe, click-click, bay by bay, side to side. Heel-toe, click-click— there goes my straight-line stride. (There it goes.) (One more time.) [VERSE 2] I spun once just to test the click, twice to watch my shadow split. Every strip went dark behind; I doubled back and woke the line. By row six, I dropped the test. No audience. No need to impress. The gate stayed shut, the city slept. The ceiling caught my every step. [PRE-CHORUS 2] Every time the ceiling lost me, I gave the dark another spin. I thought freedom would announce itself— it only counted me in. [CHORUS 2] Motion detected— (click-click, glow) step left, lights race, step right, next row. No count in my head, no move pre-set. I move and the concrete wakes wherever I step. [POST-CHORUS] Heel-toe, click-click, bay by bay, side to side. Heel-toe, click-click— there goes my straight-line stride. (Again.) (One more row.) [BRIDGE] At the edge of every sensor, one light led me to the next. None could reach beyond its radius; each one found me, then released. Every ending woke another. Every dark became a beat. Each light dimmed behind my shoulder; the next one bloomed beneath my feet. (Right on cue.) (Keep it moving.) [FINAL CHORUS] Motion detected— (all rows glow) step left, lights race, step right, let go. No dark left to test, no move pre-set. I move and the whole level wakes wherever I step. By the exit, all my caution was a shadow out of breath. [FINAL POST-CHORUS] Heel-toe, click-click, every row, side to side. Heel-toe, click-click— the straight line fell behind. Heel-toe, click-click— (don’t stop now) every row, side to side. Heel-toe, click-click— (one more, one more) the straight line fell behind. [OUTRO] The lights timed out behind me. I didn’t. (Motion detected.)
