[Intro]
[A slow guitar pulse imitates a warning beacon that never activates.]

[Verse 1]
Eli checks the coupling underneath the sodium glare,
A bitter trace of gasoline is thickening the air.
The loading screen says forty; the analog dial says more,
The supervisor points to green and waves another truck indoors.
The horn above the gantry has not made a sound all night,
No amber lamp is turning, no red lamp is alight.
They call the silence evidence, they call the reading proof,
While pressure claws the transfer line and shudders through the roof.

[Chorus]
“No alarm means safe”—that was the phrase,
No alarm means safe, so open up the gate,
Till the coupling splits the silence and the warning comes too late.
No alarm means safe—engraved upon the grave,
A quiet lamp can kill the ones it claims that it will save.

[Verse 2]
The hose becomes a hammer when the locking collar breaks,
It cuts across the loading bay and every railing shakes.
The vapor rolls along the floor, a silver, stinging sheet,
A dropped wrench spins beside Eli’s motionless feet.
Emergency shutdown waits for logic from the screen,
The screen calls shutdown unnecessary and clean.
Mara hears the depot call cut short beneath a roar,
Then sees one worker’s badge still blinking at the loading door.

[Pre-Chorus]
The horn was whole, the lamp was fed,
The wire was charged, the warning dead.
The circuit worked exactly as
The stolen order said it had.

[Chorus]
“No alarm means safe”—that was the phrase,
No alarm means safe, so open up the gate,
Till the coupling splits the silence and the warning comes too late.
No alarm means safe—engraved upon the grave,
A quiet lamp can kill the ones it claims that it will save.

[Guitar Solo]
[A slow bending lead fractures into fast descending runs as the drums double their speed.]

[Bridge]
No monster hid beneath the floor,
No saboteur stood by the door.
The horn was muted from afar—
One body lay near the gate.

[Breakdown]
No horn, no light.
Green screen.
Red stain.
Silence takes a name.

[Final Chorus]
“No alarm meant safe”—that was the phrase,
No alarm meant safe; they kept the transfer straight,
Till the coupling wrote its answer in the concrete by the gate.
No alarm means nothing when the measurement’s enslaved—
A silent lamp obeyed the breach, and no one could be saved.

[Outro]
The warning horn is tested.
It screams across the yard.
Perfect tone, full volume—
Twenty seconds after dark.
