[Intro]

One question.
Four channels.
Nine owners.
No answer.

[Verse]

"Is the export fixed?" arrives at nine.
I paste the case in the product line.
Product says, "Support should validate."
Support says, "Engineering must replicate."

Sales appears with a friendly wave:
"Can we tell them Friday's safe?"
I ask who signed the Friday date.
Three dots blink. They hesitate.

[Chorus]

Let me check internally,
where answers travel vertically.
From desk to desk, from team to team,
through every layer in between.
The customer waits externally
while I check internally.

[Verse]

The Jira card says "Needs review."
The roadmap deck says "Quarter Two."
The quarter changed three weeks ago,
but no one told the status show.

I schedule fifteen minutes flat.
Everyone declines the chat.
Then writes a paragraph at length
explaining why another team has strength.

[Pre-Chorus]

I follow arrows through the chart,
each arrow points to someone's part.
The matrix forms a perfect ring.
No box is owning anything.

[Chorus]

Let me check internally,
where answers drift eternally.
From desk to desk, from queue to queue,
until the question starts anew.
The customer waits externally
while I check internally.

[Drum Break]

[Verse]

At three, the ticket finds a name:
a developer who knows the frame.
She reads the logs and writes at four:
"This fails inside the report core."

I kloze my eyes and count to three.
The red lamp keeps its company.
My notebook holds the honest line:
no owner means there is no time.

[Break]

Let me check—

No. I have checked.

The answer has no owner,
and ownership is fate.

[Bridge]

I tag them all. I book the room.
No private message, no vague "soon."
The next reply will name the hands
that build the date the customer demands.

[Final Chorus]

I will not check internally
until the truth turns absentee.
I'll bring the owners visibly
into one room with history.
A question needs responsibility—
not one more check internally.

[Outro]

One question.
One defect.
One meeting
no one can redirect.