[Intro]

Three clean notes.

No gong.

No countdown.

The light is still red.

[Verse]

Someone took the WEATHER BLAST
And used the back for coffee names.
The TRANSPORT CHAOS file was passed
To archives with the other claims.

Leo loosened up his tie.
Maya closed the overnight.
Priya wrote beneath the log:
"Accuracy is not a light."

[Chorus]

No one looked up
when the warning finally came.
We had used the loudest language
for every smaller name.

No one knew which red was true.
When everything is breaking news, nothing breaks through.

[Verse]

Morning found the studio
With paper cups beside the screens.
The giant arrows lay below
A stack marked URGENT GRAPHICS CLEAN.

Gordon's lamp remained above,
Still blinking every seven beats.
Nobody had switched it off yet—
The glow across the empty seats.

[Chorus]

No one looked up
when the warning finally came.
We had spent the word "historic"
on a day that stayed the same.

No one knew which red was true.
When everything is breaking news, nothing breaks through.

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

Leo finds the first script from launch night: EVERYTHING IS BREAKING NEWS, in thick red marker. He smiles once — not proudly.
Priya deletes DEEPLY CONCERNING from the default template.
Graphics asks, "What do we use if nothing is happening?"
Maya says: "Nothing." The room goes quiet. Nobody dies.

[Build-up]

Three clean notes. Root. Minor third. Flattened fifth.
The old alarm without the alarm.

[Final Chorus]

No one looked up,
so now we learn to lower noise.
Trust returns in inches, not in views.
If everything is breaking news, nothing breaks through.
Maybe next time they will—

If we give the warning room to mean what it means.

[Reprise]

Five. Four. Three. Two. One.
The camera light turns green. Leo looks into the lens:
"Good evening. Here is what happened today."
Behind him, for once, the red lamp does not flash.

[Outro]

Then — one tiny flicker.

Gordon looks up. Maya looks at Gordon.

Gordon slowly puts his hand back in his pocket.

The guitars play three clean notes. And stop.
