[Intro: Female Lead, Mara, spoken]
Reliability is not a dashboard.
Slide one: impact. Slide two: cost.
Slide three: thirty-six hours lost.
Do not call this heroic.

[Verse 1: Female Lead]
Monday suits surround the screen,
white cuffs, collars clean.
MAH-rah stands beneath the light,
still wearing Sunday in her eyes.
She shows charges copied twice,
the coast cut off, the rising price.
The owner field stays bare.
She lets the silent figures stare.

[Pre-Chorus: Duet]
Do not call exhaustion brave.
Do not praise the cost we gave.
If survival needs this pain,
put the failure in the frame.

[Chorus: Duet]
Reliability is not a dashboard,
not a color on a polished board.
It is tested paths and owners known,
enough hands so no one stands alone.
It is paid recovery after stress,
a system that does not consume its best.

[Verse 2: Alternating Vocals, Male First]
A director taps his silver pen:
"Still, the service rose again."
MAH-rah answers, "People rose.
Your system failed where no chart shows."
TAH-reek folds his arms and waits.
LAY-nah holds the list of pages.
No applause. No polished spin.
Only who was hurt, and when.

[Pre-Chorus: Duet]
Do not call exhaustion brave.
Do not praise the cost we gave.
If survival needs this pain,
put the failure in the frame.

[Chorus: Duet]
Reliability is not a dashboard,
not a color on a polished board.
It is tested paths and owners known,
enough hands so no one stands alone.
It is paid recovery after stress,
a system that does not consume its best.

[Verse 3: Female Lead, Mara]
"One pager crossed three hands.
No team stood behind the plan.
One empty chair cut duty thin.
You called the rescue proof of a win."
She asks for drills, error bounds,
for buyer tests from outside town,
for power to delay a launch,
paid recovery after calls.

[Guitar Solo: baritone pager motif rises while presentation clicks fall out of time]

[Bridge: Alternating Vocals, Male First]
"We hear you. We will broaden view,
add a dashboard, train the crew."
MAH-rah sets the clicker down:
"A graph cannot take weekend rounds."

[Breakdown: Alternating Vocals]
Fund the people.
Share the load.
Put your names
beside the code.

[Final Chorus: Duet]
Reliability is not a dashboard,
not a target quietly ignored.
Each failover is tried and known.
Enough hands mean no one stands alone.
Measure truth. Fund the plan.
Build for people, not one heroic hand.

[Climax: Female Lead, Mara]
"No action item can disguise
that every perfect uptime score
was carried into this clean room
behind three pairs of sleepless eyes."

[Outro: Alternating Vocals]
The board approves a working group.
No hiring date. Another loop.
MAH-rah leaves the pager by the report.
Reliability is not a dashboard.
