[Intro][A projector fan hums beneath a hard guitar pulse. A red stamp lands after each command.]
[Duet: Helena and Victor]

[Male Spoken Vocal: Victor]
The work is substantially complete.

[Female Spoken Vocal: Helena]
Then why is the exposure active?

[Verse 1]
[Male Vocal: Victor]

Three red folders, squared and numbered in a row.
The findings need refinement before outsiders know.
The old account is handled. The archive has a guard.
The contract buys the time to finish every part.
The register is amber. Make it green by ten.
Choose "closed with monitoring." We can review it then.

[Pre-Chorus][Alternating Vocals]

[Male Vocal: Victor]
Call it presentation.
[Female Vocal: Helena]
I call it a false sign.
[Male Vocal: Victor]
Give the truth a frame.
[Female Vocal: Helena]
The frame must fit the line.

[Chorus][Duet]

[Male Vocal: Victor]
Mark the risk as closed. Let the dashboard breathe.
[Female Vocal: Helena]
An action stays open when you paint the status green.
[Male Vocal: Victor]
Mark the risk as closed. Give the client what they chose.
[Female Vocal: Helena]
Danger does not leave because the field now reads "Closed."
[Both: Helena and Victor]
Mark the risk as closed -- who carries what gets lost
When polished monthly figures meet the unpaid cost?

[Verse 2]
[Female Vocal: Helena]

The chairman joins by speakerphone, controlled and thin:
"The client needs assurance, not a catalogue of sin.
The contract funds the safeguards you intend to build.
Think past the wording. Think of jobs this room could kill."
The trap is in the sentence, polished smooth and clean:
Lie now to fund protection. Paint the false report green.

[Instrumental Break][Stabbing guitars and kick drums alternate like competing signatures.]

[Chorus][Duet]

[Male Vocal: Victor]
Mark the risk as closed. Let the dashboard breathe.
[Female Vocal: Helena]
An action stays open when you paint the status green.
[Male Vocal: Victor]
Mark the risk as closed. Give the client what they chose.
[Female Vocal: Helena]
Danger does not leave because the field now reads "Closed."
[Both: Helena and Victor]
Mark the risk as closed -- who carries what gets lost
When polished monthly figures meet the unpaid cost?

[Bridge][Alternating Spoken Vocals]

[Male Spoken Vocal: Victor]
No one asked for confession.
[Female Spoken Vocal: Helena]
They asked if controls work.
[Male Spoken Vocal: Victor]
Think about the company.
[Female Spoken Vocal: Helena]
That is why this stays open.

[Breakdown]
[Female Spoken Vocal: Helena]

Open risk.
Partial treatment.
Owners assigned.
Evidence attached.

[Final Chorus]
[Female Vocal: Helena]

I will not mark the risk as closed to decorate the file.
I will not trade a customer's trust for one approving smile.
Keep the status amber. Put the deadline by the cost.
Show the work already done and name the work still lost.
A clean report can wait. The client sees the gaps.
One honest open finding gives the next review a map.

[Outro]
[Female Spoken Vocal: Helena]

Victor lifts the folders.
The red stamp misses "Closed."
The shredder starts behind the wall.
The risk remains exposed.
