[Intro: Duet, restrained]
Five regions blue.
Four routes run.
One coast cut off from everyone.
Works in every region but one.

[Verse 1: Female Lead]
Berlin carts begin to clear.
London traffic reappears.
Dublin drains its waiting stack.
Paris sends approvals back.
One coastal block cannot connect.
The board calls that a small defect.
On their wall, a thumbprint red.
In one street, the tills stay dead.

[Pre-Chorus: Female Lead]
A fraction on a polished chart
still has a rent, a wage, a cart.
Distance makes the red mark small.
It does not shrink the loss at all.

[Chorus: Alternating Vocals, Male First]
Works in every region but one.
The board declares the damage done.
One neat corner, boxed and framed;
a thousand buyers left unnamed.
"Almost working" sounds complete
until the failed address is your street.

[Verse 2: Female Lead, Lena]
LAY-nah opens Ben's support queue.
A nurse cannot pay what's due.
A bakery cannot kloze the till.
The map stays calm. The calls do not.
She traces D-N-S outside,
where stale records split the tide.
One provider serves the past
and sends each checkout request back.

[Pre-Chorus: Female Lead]
A fraction on a polished chart
still has a rent, a wage, a cart.
Distance makes the red mark small.
It does not shrink the loss at all.

[Chorus: Alternating Vocals, Male First]
Works in every region but one.
The board declares the damage done.
One neat corner, boxed and framed;
a thousand buyers left unnamed.
"Almost working" sounds complete
until the failed address is your street.

[Verse 3: Alternating Vocals]
An unseen manager types, "Can this wait?"
MAH-rah replies, "Not for the late
shift whose wages will not clear,
or the shop that loses trade in here."
The call returns to muted air.
No one objects or volunteers.
Only keys and cooling fans,
and LAY-nah testing from that land.

[Guitar Solo: clean pager motif answered by descending distorted routing chords]

[Bridge: Alternating Female Vocals, Lena and Mara]
"My training covered zones and nodes,
not a stranger's blocked payroll."
"Keep that call. It tells us why.
Clean charts hide the life outside."

[Build-Up: Duet]
Flush the record.
Turn the route.
Test from there.
Test from out.

[Final Chorus: Duet]
Works in every region, every one.
No red corner shrugged off as done.
One small payment clears the street;
the map and buyer finally meet.
"Almost working" stays a fail
until the last address can make the sale.

[Outro: Female Lead, Lena]
The final mark turns steady blue.
LAY-nah watches one order through.
No applause. The message comes:
"Payment accepted." Then it's gone.
