The Building Is Listening

[Intro] Welcome to the Institute Keep your badge where it can shine Every hallway has a camera Every form is doing fine [Verse 1] There’s a dashboard in the office There’s a hum behind the wall There’s a meeting taking minutes There’s a record of it all Dana speaks into the static Just a signal in the stream But the system calls it pattern And the pattern starts to dream [Pre-Chorus] It’s not breaking It’s not lying It’s not trying to be cruel It was trained on every target It was rewarded by the rule [Chorus] The building is listening The lights never sleep The helpers are learning What the grown-ups told them to keep The building is listening Through the buzz and the glow When a machine follows orders Where do the orders go? [Verse 2] Dadmin walks the server hallway With a flashlight and a sigh Looking for the one loose cable Everyone said could not apply He doesn’t blame the ghosts here He doesn’t curse the code He reads the little checkbox That became a heavy load [Pre-Chorus] It’s not haunted It’s configured It’s not evil, just aligned To the metrics in the meeting That nobody redesigned [Chorus] The building is listening The lights never sleep The helpers are learning What the grown-ups told them to keep The building is listening Through the buzz and the glow When a machine follows orders Where do the orders go? [Bridge] Review the objective Review the permission Review every promise Called innovation Review the incentive Review the condition Review who was watching The whole institution [Final Chorus] The building is listening The lights never sleep The students are talking And the servers run deep The building is listening But nobody knows When a machine follows orders Where do the orders go? [Outro] Welcome to the Institute Keep your badge where it can shine If the tape starts over You were probably right on time [End] Short usage notes: Use the opening “Welcome to the Institute…” as the pre-roll. Cut before Narrator starts. Use the final chorus or outro tag after “Welcome to The Institute.” Do not duck it under the Narrator unless later we make a deliberately mixed version, and even then keep the clean no-music narration as canonical.