[Intro]

Search the wiki.
Search the rack.
Search the spreadsheet
From three mergers back.

[Verse 1]

Mara sends a simple question:
"List the systems that we own."
Twenty-seven teams reply with
Twenty-seven versions known.

[Verse 2]

Finance has a private database.
Sales maintains a secret queue.
Legal runs a document service
Built in nineteen ninety-two.

[Verse 3]

One app answers only Tuesday.
One has no repository.
One is labelled "temporary"
In a ten-year directory.

[Pre-Chorus]

Count the hosts and count again.
Ask the owners, ask them when.
Every answer draws a route
To another system left without.

[Chorus]

Inventory not found,
No complete account.
Every map ends underground,
Every number loses count.
How can we move what no one knew
Was keeping half the company bound?

[Verse 4]

Klaus produces three old binders,
Coffee-stained and tied with string.
Page fourteen describes a service
No one dares to stop in spring.

[Verse 5]

A dashboard lists four hundred servers.
Procurement invoices six-two-three.
Monitoring detects eight hundred,
Plus a host called LEGACY-B.

[Verse 6]

Skyward says discovery's simple:
"Install agents everywhere."
Half the agents lack permission.
Some machines deny they're there.

[Pre-Chorus]

Name the process, name who leads.
Name the data that they need.
Every answer, every clue
Splits the landscape into two.

[Chorus]

Inventory not found,
No complete account.
Every map ends underground,
Every number loses count.
How can we move what no one knew
Was holding production to the ground?

[Drum Break]

[Spoken Break]

Who owns PAYROLL-FINAL-TWO?
Not us.
Who owns the password?
Maybe Martin.
Where is Martin?
Left in May.
What happens if we turn it off?
No one knows enough to say.

[Build-up]

Tag the unknown.
Mark the doubt.
Every system called redundant
Feeds another one instead.

[Final Chorus]

Inventory not found,
But the contract has been signed.
Every map is out of date
Before the legend is defined.
We are moving toward the future
With no measure of the ground.

[Outro]

Five notes try to close the phrase.
One goes missing. No one hears.
Mara closes every spreadsheet.
Klaus is waiting by the door.
"There is one machine," he tells her,
"That you haven't counted before."
