[Intro][A rapid riff is cut off by the click of a plug being pulled. Alarm chords burst in as a bypass relay snaps shut.]

[System Choir - Mechanized Shouts]

Firewall power lost.
Fail-open bypass engaged.
Outer scan detected.
Incident clock: start.

[Verse 1 - Mara, Female Clean Lead]

At eleven in the boardroom, they rehearsed the savings show,
With arrows climbing upward and the risk line buried low.
A presentation lamp arrived to paint the speaker gold,
But every socket near the stage was occupied and old.
The strategy director traced one power cord along the wall,
Found a brick marked FIREWALL and pulled the thickest plug of all.
The lamp came on; the fail-open relay joined each side.
Three floors below, unfiltered scans came straight inside.

[Pre-Chorus - Mara & Office Choir]

One port answered.
Then came ten.
Foreign login.
Try again.

[Chorus - Mara & Gregor, Duet]

Who unplugged the firewall?
Who needed one more socket in the conference hall?
One lamp for the graph, one plug from the wall—
Now every outer packet walks unfiltered through it all.
Name the hand. Record the call.
Who unplugged the firewall?

[Verse 2 - Mara]

The access system sealed its doors to isolate the breach.
The payroll host dropped off the route; the phones went out of reach.
A printer spat corrupted names across the seventh floor;
The coffee unit asked for ROOT, then would not pour.
Greg-or blocked the outer uplink, shut the bypass, checked each route,
But management revoked his rights before he cleaned them out.
The C-E-O appeared onscreen and named the basement crew:
“You failed to stop a known attack. Your access rights are through.”

[Pre-Chorus - Mara]

I held the unplugged power cord
Beside the lamp’s new stand.
The torn red label lay below.
The plug was in his hand.

[Chorus - Mara & Gregor, Duet]

Who unplugged the firewall?
Who needed one more socket in the conference hall?
One lamp for the graph, one plug from the wall—
Now every outer packet walks unfiltered through it all.
Name the hand. Record the call.
Who unplugged the firewall?

[Drum Break][Snare and toms imitate an incident-room clock while voices shout timestamps from opposite sides.]

[Bridge - Mara & Gregor, Alternating]

Ten fifty-nine—the lamp arrived.
Eleven sharp—the bypass fired.
Eleven-one—the outer scan.
Eleven-two—the breach began.

[Breakdown - Gregor & Office Choir]

FIREWALL—DO NOT DISCONNECT.
Red block letters. Clear. Direct.
He tore the label, took the feed,
Then blamed the hands that logged the deed.

[Build-up - Mara]

The network split. The doors stayed chained.
The newest servers lost their names.
The emergency phone rang once below.
An amber tube began to glow.

[Final Chorus - Mara & Gregor, Duet]

Who unplugged the firewall?
The answer held the lamp inside the conference hall.
No phantom threat, no basement fault—
One careless hand exposed them all.
Reconnect, contain, record the fall.
We know who unplugged the firewall.

[Outro - Mara]

They restored the plug. The breach remained.
We checked each route in turn.
The emergency phone displayed:
CONNECT TO REX. CONFIRM.
