[Intro]

Silver case beside the chair
No applause and no one there

[Verse]

She remembers twelve good sellers
Names beside the monthly board
People with a rent and children
People Victor calls resource

Her own handwriting looks foreign
Under language built to close
Every confident assurance
Now belongs to those who know

[Chorus]

Quota or conscience
Which one keeps the lights alive
Quota or conscience
Which one lets the people survive
A number can protect a payroll
A promise can destroy a team

[Verse]

Victor enters after midnight
Does not sit or take a drink
Says the board expects correction
Not another week to think

[Cassidy]
Titan signed because I pushed them
You approved the closing plan

[Victor]
I approve the final revenue
Not the method or the hand

[Chorus]

Quota or conscience
Which one keeps the lights alive
Quota or conscience
Which one lets the people survive
A number can protect a payroll
A promise can destroy a team

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

But later has a name called Leon
Later has a weekend lost
Later has a client waiting
With a ledger of the cost

[Break]

No bell
No glass
No polished phrase
No future drawn in thirty days

No hidden note
No sales already promised it

[Build-up]

I can lose the fastest closing
I can lose the company car
I can tell the room the distance
Between where we stand and where things are

[Final Chorus]

Let the red line rise or fall
Without pretending it is all
Quota or conscience
Victor may remove my name
But I will not sell another future
Built from someone else’s pain

[Outro]

Silver case beside the chair
Cassidy leaves it open there
Three notes climb, then one descends
For the first time, she chooses where it ends