[Intro - arpeggiator, no drums] Signal green Signal green Signal Gone [Verse 1] Cold blue light on a rack in the dark Fans in the chorus, LEDs in the black Station was singing through the middle of the night Never dropped a single packet, never missed a byte Then I got a taste for the beautiful and new Put a proxy at the gate like a chrome retinue Certificate glowing, handshake tight Flipped a switch on the future and I killed the night [Pre-Chorus] Every dashboard singing Every metric clean The prettiest machine you have ever seen But the music kept dying at the twenty minute mark Twenty minutes of heaven then the dark [Chorus - big, gated, anthemic] Keep it simple (keep it simple!) Keep it simple (keep it simple!) Don't build a cathedral on a stream Let it run Keep it simple (keep it simple!) Keep it simple (keep it simple!) The ghost is never hiding in the thing you left undone It's hiding in the clever one [Verse 2] So I fed the machine everything it never asked Cache on the cache and a queue on the task Watchdog watching watchdogs in an infinite ring Bought a bigger box and it did the same thing Blamed the wire. Blamed the sky. Blamed the ISP and I blamed the night sky. Three days burning in the amber glow The answer sitting there where I refused to go [Bridge - stripped, cold pad and voice, near silence] So I stopped guessing. And I started listening. tcpdump. Port four four three. Wrote it to a file. Set it free. Opened up the capture like a message from a star And the truth was sitting there. Cold. And it was bare. One connection. Every channel. Sharing the lane. Multiplexed a river through a single drain. Window closing. Flow control drawn tight. Long lived audio doesn't want a shared flight. It wants one dumb socket that will hold on through It doesn't want a smarter one. It just wants to. [Verse 3 - full drums slam back] One line. One config. That's the total crime. Pulled the two right out and let the one keep time. Back to plain, like a road through the dark Signal held forever and it never lost the spark Seven hours. Twelve. Then a day and a half. Steady as a heartbeat, and the rack had the last laugh. Tore out every clever thing I ever installed And the simple thing was standing when the clever ones fell [Final Chorus - full stack, choir synth, huge] Keep it simple (keep it simple!) Keep it simple (keep it simple!) Don't build a cathedral on a stream Let it run Keep it simple (keep it simple!) Keep it simple (keep it simple!) The ghost is never hiding in the thing you left undone It's hiding in the clever one [Outro - arpeggiator returns, fading] Read the packets Not the manual you assumed Simple is not a shortcut Simple is the room Signal green Still running Still running [End]
