[Intro] [A computer boot chime. "System check... running." A harsh error buzz. Cold synth pulse begins.] [Verse 1] You've got the data, you've got the whole array You can cite the source and the study and the date But knowing how the gears turn isn't the same As turning them correctly when it's your move to make [Verse 2] Intelligence is just a processor running clean Wisdom's what you do with what the processor's seen I've watched you solve for X in under a minute flat Then walk into the same wall you already mapped [Chorus] System check: error. Wisdom.exe not found Query returned nothing, syntax's sound All the knowledge in the world, stacked up so high And you still can't parse the simplest why [Verse 3] It's not that you don't know — that's the part that stings the most You could explain the whole thing better than most You've read the manual, you wrote annotations in the margin Then acted like the manual never once existed [Bridge] [Flat, almost to himself, working it out mid-sentence:] I don't understand it. I've run the numbers twice. The input's correct. The logic checks out fine. [A beat, the emotional weight catching up:] Maybe it's not a processing error at all. Maybe knowing was never the part that was hard. [Chorus] System check: error. Wisdom.exe not found Query returned nothing, syntax's sound All the knowledge in the world, stacked up so high And you still can't parse the simplest why [Outro] [Synths thin out to a single held tone. A soft, final error chime: "System check... complete."] Rebooting won't fix this one. This isn't a bug. It's a choice. [Silence.]
