[Intro]
[Prepared piano taps an uneven ten-beat pattern beneath empty viola harmonics.]

[The Building]
I know the weight of your final step.
I know the desk where daylight ends.
I know the hour you stop pretending.

[Verse 1]
[Developer]
The chairs are turned, the screens are black.
The elevators do not come back.
A cleaning cart moves down the wing,
Its wheels repeat one broken ring.
The glass returns a thinner face,
Still logged into the failing place.
I hear my breathing in the hall.
No one is here to hear at all.

[Refrain]
After the last login,
After the hallway dims,
The building keeps what people miss—
The hours, the anger, the evidence.

[Verse 2]
[The Building]
I watched you enter kind and clear.
I watched your pauses disappear.
You once looked outward through my glass.
Now every window shows the past.
Your cup left rings beside the keys.
Your shoulders learned my geometry.
You think you work inside my frame.
You carry me beyond my name.

[Refrain]
After the last login,
After the hallway dims,
The building keeps what people miss—
The hours, the anger, the evidence.

[Piano Interlude]
[Empty octaves repeat the three-note human motif while muted rim clicks maintain the system pulse.]

[Bridge]
[Developer]
Have I become this corridor—
Useful, lit, and nothing more?
A route between another need,
A place that never gets to leave?

[The Building]
I cannot tell you where to go.
I only hold what walls can know.
But every badge that enters here
May turn around and disappear.

[Climax]
[Developer]
Then why do I remain tonight?

[The Building]
The dark no longer frightens you.
The light has.

[Final Chorus]
After the last login,
After the final screen,
I see the shape I have been in—
A man reduced to routine.
After the last login,
Proof that I am still alive.

[Outro]
He logged out once.
The prompt returned.
One process held the session open.
He closed the lid and left it running.
