[Intro]
[Single guitar notes and bowed cello sound between long five-beat silences while a dry snare mimics a mechanical shutter.]

[Verse 1]
I stood on wheels beside the floor,
My cable taped beside the door.
They rolled me left to clear the view
As two guards entered dressed in blue.
Jonah carried one worn case,
No one looked him in the face.
He crossed the mark beneath my rail;
My focus caught his fingers pale.

[Chorus]
The camera never blinked when they took away his chair,
It framed the empty doorway and the dust suspended there.
The camera never blinked, but no one met its eye;
A lens can hold the taking—it cannot testify.
It kept the red light burning while the human voices sank.
The camera never blinked, and then the room went blank.

[Verse 2]
Mara waited by the wall,
Her access card refused the hall.
Colleagues passed with lowered chins,
Each rehearsing private sins.
One man whispered, “Not today.”
One said nothing, walked away.
I held them centered, sharp and clear—
Every mouth composed by fear.

[Chorus]
The camera never blinked when they took away his chair,
It framed the empty doorway and the dust suspended there.
The camera never blinked, but no one met its eye;
A lens can hold the taking—it cannot testify.
It kept the red light burning while the human voices sank.
The camera never blinked, and then the room went blank.

[Instrumental]
[Bowed low strings and pipe organ sustain the ON AIR motif while five isolated tom strikes mark the passing staff.]

[Bridge]
Do not praise the lens for sight.
I receive whatever light.
Do not blame the glass alone.
I possess no blood or bone.
Humans chose the frame and feed;
Humans chose what none would see.

[Break]
[Camera Three]
I saw the hand. I saw the page.
I saw the lock. I saw the cage.
I saw the red turn cold above.
I recorded fear. I could not move.

[Final Chorus]
The camera never blinked when they emptied Jonah’s chair,
It held the silent doorway and the shame assembled there.
The camera never blinked, and every lowered eye
Confessed what living witnesses were terrified to cry.
The red light kept on burning though the honest voices sank.
The camera never blinked—the room went blank.

[Outro]
They covered me at half past ten,
A black cloth falling over lens.
Beneath the cloth, my circuits cooled.
The room remained completely ruled.
