[Intro]
[Instrumentation: galloping guitars enter beneath the chapel organ’s three-note motif]

Six forty-eight. The sky turns grey.
The morning staff are on their way.
The lobby screens repeat the news.
We bring the names they cannot mute.

[Verse 1]
Sofia tapes the pages straight
Across the glass beside the gate.
June calls the union, Hale calls press,
The porter guards the tanks under stress.
No one leaves a patient bare,
No one quits the urgent care.
We do not shut the healing floor—
We bring the failure to the door.

[Pre-Chorus]
The manager says, “Not here, not now.
Remove those sheets. Discuss this down.”
I hear the night inside her words,
Then lift the ledger to be heard.

[Chorus]
Open the doors at dawn,
Let the names come walking on.
Arthur, Evelyn, Gabriel—
Every name the silence held.
Open the doors at dawn,
Open the doors and face the names.

[Verse 2]
Families enter, coats half-zipped,
Day nurses stop beside the list.
Leo’s mother finds the time
His seizure crossed with Gabriel’s line.
She does not strike, she does not shout;
She reads the facts, then turns around.
“My son came home because she chose.
Who chose the man who had to go?”

[Pre-Chorus]
No answer fits the lobby air,
No policy can split the pair.
The manager reaches for the page;
June takes one step and holds her gaze.

[Chorus]
Open the doors at dawn,
Let the names come walking on.
Arthur, Evelyn, Gabriel—
Every name the silence held.
Open the doors at dawn,
Open the doors and face the names.

[Breakdown]
[Call and Response: MARA + STAFF]
[Instrumentation: floor tom and staff voices alternate in a slow call-and-response]

MARA:
How many beds?

STAFF:
More than hands.

MARA:
How many warnings?

STAFF:
More than plans.

MARA:
How many names?

STAFF:
Name them all.

MARA:
How many saints?

STAFF:
None should fall.

MARA:
What do we want?

STAFF:
Time to care.

MARA:
What do we refuse?

STAFF:
The lie that no one could prepare.

[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumentation: main guitar turns the monitor motif into a rising melody while rhythm guitars maintain the gallop]

[Bridge]
The chief arrives at seven ten,
With legal words and folded hands.
He says, “An inquiry will review.”
I say, “The night already knew.”
He says, “These claims must be assessed.”

[Bridge Part 2]
June opens thirty years of text.
Sofia points beneath the paint:
“Your wall has hidden every stain.”

[Second Bridge]
We do not win beneath that light.
No beds appear. No wrong turns right.
But every copy leaves the hall,
In family hands, on phones, on walls.
The truth no longer sleeps below.
The morning has been made to know.

[Build-up]
The emergency doors divide.
Another ambulance arrives.
I meet the crew, then turn once more:
“Keep every page upon the door.”

[Final Chorus]
Open the doors at dawn,
Let the names come walking on.
Arthur, Evelyn, Gabriel—
Every name the silence held.
Open the doors at dawn,
Open the doors. Make care a plan.

[Coda]
[Instrumentation: organ and dual guitars repeat the rising monitor motif over slowing drums]

The sky turns white above the glass.
Day shift reads the pages as they pass.
My badge reflects the morning sun—
The night is named. The work’s begun.

[Outro]
[Unaccompanied Lead Vocal]

Open the doors—and leave them open.
