[Intro - one shutter becomes four] [System] Zone three active. Dwell time: six point two. Return probability: updating. [Lead] Who asked you what it meant? [Verse 1 - Lead] Red light's cold above the empty stage. My shoes are back beside the dressing chair. I hear one click beyond the safety rhythm, then another when nobody is there. On the panel by the service hallway, green says safety, amber says retain. One feed watches doors and marked-off borders. One keeps teaching numbers from my frame. [System] Attention event classified. Confidence: eighty-four percent. [Lead] You kept the angle. You missed the event. [Chorus] Eyes in the ceiling, counting every turn, save the shape I made in light, miss the reason it could burn. Eyes in the ceiling, label every scene. You can measure where I stood. You cannot tell me what I mean. [Verse 2 - Lead and Manager] [Lead] I call the manager over quietly. No grand alarm, no breaking of the screen. I point to amber under `secondary`. She reads the line and looks back up at me. [Manager] Safety stays. The copy stops. We log the mismatch, check the terms. [Lead] Good. Keep the doors and lose the profile. Protection does not need to own my turns. [System] Archive process pending. Behavior model incomplete. [Lead] Correct. [Chorus] Eyes in the ceiling, counting every turn, save the shape I made in light, miss the reason it could burn. Eyes in the ceiling, label every scene. You can measure where I stood. You cannot tell me what I mean. [Broken-House Analysis Loop] [System - chopped but intelligible fragments] Look. Pause. Return. Spend. Look. Pause. [Lead - phrasing slips around the grid] I looked because the room went still. I paused because I chose the time. I came back for my silver jacket. Your four clean verbs are not my mind. [Late Hook - human voices widen] Keep the safety. Lose the claim. Hold the record. Not my name. [System] Secondary archive shutting-- [Abrupt power failure] [Near-silence] [Lead, unprocessed] Everybody good?
