[Intro]
[The full band fractures the three-note alarm motif across changing meters.]

[Verse 1]
First the western feeder trips and throws the load downstream,
Then the eastern station follows an unauthorized routine.
Water pumps reverse their order, intake pressure starts to fall,
Traffic signals clear opposing lanes and answer no recall.
Tank farm four reports a fire where no flame can yet be found,
Tank farm two reports no pressure as the vents begin to pound.
Every isolated failure takes the next one by the hand,
A city built on links becomes a single falling span.

[Chorus]
Cascade at dawn, one by one the feeders fall,
Cascade at dawn, every silent screen recalls.
What the city built as links becomes a chain across us all,
Cascade at dawn—no single switch can stop the fall.
Cascade at dawn.

[Verse 2]
The hospital requests a truck the fuel depot claims it sent,
The truck is locked behind a gate that lost its local management.
The telecom exchange has power, but its cooling pumps are still,
The water plant has diesel, but no signal from the hill.
The emergency command room cannot authenticate its staff,
The public warning message loops a six-hour weather graph.
Mara opens one old drawing stamped in nineteen ninety-nine—
One vendor maintenance account runs through every broken line.

[Pre-Chorus]
One account for every site,
One forgotten appetite.
One shared name beneath the floor—
One weak key in every door.

[Chorus]
Cascade at dawn, one by one the feeders fall,
Cascade at dawn, every silent screen recalls.
What the city built as links becomes a chain across us all,
Cascade at dawn—no single switch can stop the fall.
Cascade at dawn.

[Instrumental]
[Guitars, bass and drums cycle through the separate failure riffs before locking into the alarm motif.]

[Bridge]
No warhead crossed the border,
No army held a gun.
A default password, left in place,
Default Password Armageddon came quietly.

[Buildup]
Fuel to grid.
Grid to water.
Water to ward.
Order to slaughter.
Gate to road.
Road to flame.
Every system knows the name.

[Final Chorus]
Cascade at dawn, now the linked foundations fall,
Cascade at dawn, no isolated walls at all.
What the city sold as progress forged the chain across us all,
Cascade at dawn—Mara hears the hospital call.
Cascade at dawn…
She knows where to end it all.

[Outro]
The sun clears the refinery.
The city disappears below.
Not under smoke or rubble—
Under systems that still show green.