No Windows in the Bay

[INTRO] [sound cue: fluorescent hum drops into low drone] [sound cue: distant metal echo with no source direction] [VERSE 1] There are no windows in the bay only brighter sections of wall light doesn’t come from outside anymore it just appears where needed Dockrat42 checks his watch but the watch is just repeating itself no tick no forward just pulse [PRE-CHORUS] [spoken] What time is it is not a valid question here it never returns a result [sound cue: PA system clicks on, no voice] [CHORUS] [ensemble chant] NO WINDOWS NO WINDOWS ONLY NOW NO CLOCKS NO CLOCKS ONLY NOW [VERSE 2] Shift markers stopped meaning order they started meaning location but location moved forklifts travel routes that don’t exist and still arrive someone says “morning shift” nobody recognizes the word anymore Dockrat42 writes “12:30” but it rewrites itself into “always” [PRE-CHORUS] [spoken] [broken] There is no before there is no after only system continuity [sound cue: metal reverberation with no origin] [CHORUS] [ensemble chant] NO WINDOWS NO CLOCKS NO EXIT TIME ONLY NOW ONLY NOW ONLY NOW [OUTRO] [spoken] If you remove all time markers nothing stops it just continues being Dockrat42 stops recording because recording implies sequence [sound cue: fluorescent hum becomes steady infinite tone]