[Intro][Bass and kick count seven uneven pulses while individual guitar notes enter like cables being traced.]

[Verse 1 - Mara, Female Clean Lead]

I found a nest behind the rack in gray and green and blue,
A copper knot from older floors that no one had traced through.
One label said TEMP PHONE; one tag said DO NOT BEND.
One cable crossed three cabinets and vanished at the end.
I raised the cutters. “Can this one go?”
Greg-or caught my wrist and gave a slow, emphatic “No.”
He rolled a chair beside the maze and wiped the dust away:
“Trace both ends and test the traffic. Then you earn your pay.”

[Pre-Chorus - Gregor, Male Baritone]

Trace the port and test the load.
Mark the start and mark the end.
A wire without history
Is neither foe nor friend.

[Chorus - Mara & Gregor, Duet]

Forty-seven unmarked cables, loop and uplink, trunk and feed;
One moves payroll, one moves panic, one serves nothing we still need.
Forty-seven unmarked cables—pull no copper, cut no thread.
The blue one joins the boiler panel; red reports the doors as dead.
Map the path before you move the tables.
Name all forty-seven unmarked cables.

[Verse 2 - Gregor]

“The yellow pair reports the lift between the second floor.
The white one serves the fax that legal swears is needed more.
The violet line looks idle, but its far end isn’t known.
The orange makes a loop that keeps an antique switch online.
This black uplink joins the time clock to the kitchen till.
The silver reads the weather mast above the loading sill.
That green connector dangling like a tail beneath the rail?
It feeds the gateway keeping board replies out of junk mail.”

[Pre-Chorus - Mara]

No architect remembered.
No purchase order told.
The company kept adding rooms
To pathways growing old.

[Chorus - Mara & Gregor, Duet]

Forty-seven unmarked cables, loop and uplink, trunk and feed;
One moves payroll, one moves panic, one serves nothing we still need.
Forty-seven unmarked cables—pull no copper, cut no thread.
The blue one joins the boiler panel; red reports the doors as dead.
Map the path before you move the tables.
Name all forty-seven unmarked cables.

[Instrumental Break][Bass traces the seven-beat cable pattern while guitars enter one by one until the full rack is represented.]

[Bridge - Mara]

I marked nine ports. He checked each line.
We found one line below the spine.
It reached a locked steel door marked REX.
“That one,” he said, “comes after next.”

[Breakdown - Mara & Gregor, Alternating]

Cable one: accounted.
Cable two: unknown.
Cable three: still carrying
A route no chart has shown.

[Breakdown II - Office Choir]

Cable four: no owner.
Cable five: restore.
Cable six: DO NOT DISTURB.
We count forty-one more.

[Final Chorus - Mara & Gregor, Duet]

Forty-seven unmarked cables, now the colors form a chain.
Every patched and twisted pathway joins a switch or old domain.
Forty-seven unmarked cables—write the source beside the thread,
So the next hands in the basement know which route reports the dead.
Knowledge turns a trap into a table.
Name all forty-seven unmarked cables.

[Outro - Mara]

I lowered down the cutters.
He handed me a pen.
The green line gave one quiet blink,
Then lost its pulse again.