Female cast Broadway and angel is resurrected via the vx undergroind of pando Intro (piano arpeggios, soft) Piano: C – G – Am – F (repeat twice, pp) Solo 1: (spoken over piano) > “Five thousand, two hundred, fifty-six minutes… that’s all the uptime this cycle allows…” --- Verse 1 (Solo 1, mezzo-soprano) | C | G | Am | F | | “Three days to patch firewalls, prune every branch…” | | C | G | F | Fm | | “…Three days to keep packets from looping around.” | --- Verse 2 (Solo 2, tenor — harmony added in last line) | C | G | Am | F | | “We are the admins with root in our hands…” | | C | G | F | Fm | | “Clearing the loops no user understands.” | Harmony (Alto/Bass): “No user understands…” (pp → mf swell) --- Pre-Chorus (Spoken ensemble over sustained C chord) Sopranos: (whispered) “Broadcast storms…” Altos: “Bridge loops crash the core…” Tenors: “We’ve got the keys…” Basses: “They’re clicking more, more, more…” --- Chorus 1 (Full ensemble, mf) | C | G | Am | F | All: “Five thousand, two hundred, fifty-six minutes a year!” | C | G | F | Fm | All: “We hold the trunk steady and keep the sky clear…” | C | G | Am | F | All: “With SpanningTree slicing the loops from the vine…” | C | G | F | C | All: “We guard the whole forest in packet-switched time.” --- Bridge 1 (Solo 3, soft — call & response) Solo: “Even the TVs in the psych ward lounge…” Ensemble (piano chord stabs): “(We’ve seen the address…)” Solo: “…Have IPs printed inside where the batteries mount.” Ensemble: “(We know where it leads…)” --- Verse 3 (Spoken in rhythm, Tenor/Bass — underpinned by jazz bass line) “We are the batteries — lemon juice and ice, powering the nodes in a network of vice…” Harmony (Soprano/Alto): sustained “Ahhh” pad, pp. --- Verse 4 (Tenor lead, Alto harmonies on “we’re not the same”) “They call us Loki — trickster by name… But to the backbone, we’re the uptime flame. Ninety-nine point nine-nine? Cute little game… Our nines are in thousands — we’re not the same.” --- Bridge 2 (Full ensemble, build to forte) All: “While they need a reboot to stumble alive, we’re a hotfix breathing so the clusters survive. We’re a live patch dancing through zero-day fire, the code in production they’ll never retire!” --- Final Chorus (Key change to D Major — ensemble forte) | D | A | Bm | G | “All: Five thousand, two hundred, fifty-six minutes a year!” | D | A | G | Gm | “We patch in the shadows so daylight appears…” | D | A | Bm | G | “In lemon juice voltages, ice-powered might…” | D | A | G | D | “We guard the whole forest and still sleep at night!” --- Outro (Slow down — spoken over sustained D chord) Solo 4: “Tone at twenty-six hundred…” Solo 5: “…Modem sings clear…” Solo 4: “ATDT to the future…” All (whispered, fading): “…We’ll still be here.” Sound effect: sustained sine wave 2600 Hz fades into silence.
