[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Two twenty-three, the first one lands.
Nina checks the source.
Core facts hold; red frame opens.
“Put it top.” The call goes round.
Phones buzz once across the floor.
Leo writes the time down.
One red window, one clear case.
Nobody argues with the pace.

[Chorus]
Everything is breaking news.
That’s the joke across the room.
One red window, one clear call,
one story moving—that is all.
Still, the three-note signal comes:
everything is breaking news.

[Break]

[Verse 2]
Two forty-eight, a second thread.
Official word, still developing.
“It may move fast.” The marker squeaks.
The old exception fits this case.
Second template, second screen,
another slot in the queue.
“Which one leads?” somebody asks.
“Leave them both.” No one looks up.

[Pre-Chorus]
Then a third one hits the desk.
Live event: the standing rule.
Different reason, same red frame.
Same three notes cut through the room.

[Chorus]
Everything is breaking news.
Now the joke is keeping time.
Three red windows, three good reasons,
three exceptions, all in line.
Every signal sounds the same:
everything is breaking news.

[Break]

[Verse 3]
Ben looks back toward the board.
Threshold list stays intact:
“Major impact. Immediate need.”
No red marker crossed it out.
Arrows crowd the margins now.
Notes have climbed around the rule.
Nothing torn and nothing changed,
just more ways to enter through.

[Break]

[Bridge]
Nobody struck the old line out.
Nobody changed it in one go.
We kept the rule, then kept the case,
then one more “just in case.”
Ben counts screens, checks the board.
Every word stays where it was.
Five red windows face him back.
Each has a reason.

[Final Chorus]
Everything is breaking news.
Which one leads? Nobody knows.
Four red windows—make it five.
Another one joins the row.
The old threshold still in view,
every except
