[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Six twelve on the morning dashboard
One story card says confirmation
Yellow beside it — not cleared yet

Cursor waits in the status field
The note still says provisional
So I leave it where it is

[Chorus]
Yellow means not yet
Leave the gate where it was set
Don’t call it done
Don’t let it pass for green
Yellow means not yet
Two small words people forget
I’m not being difficult
I’m reading what it means

[Verse 2]
Handoff pings across the desk row
Same item, cleaner view
No yellow tag beside the wording
Just a checkmark coming through

Seven minutes sit between them
Old view holds at six thirteen
New screen makes it look accepted
Somewhere yellow disappeared

[Chorus]
Yellow means not yet
Leave the gate where it was set
Don’t call it done
Don’t let it pass for green
Yellow means not yet
I can feel my jaw set
When a maybe turns official
On a screen built to look clean

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
I set it back to pending
Small correction, clean and plain
No headline changed, no phones are ringing
Just the field set right again

Then I save the side-by-side
On the verification wall
Two story views, one yellow missing
I mark the seven-minute gap

[Chorus]
Yellow means not yet
That’s the rule I’m going to keep
Not a mood and not a warning
Just a line we have to read
Yellow means not yet
Yellow means not yet
If the workflow can erase it
I’ll keep proof that it was there
(Yellow means not yet)

[Outro]
Three notes fall and don’t quite settle
Coffee cools beside the screen
Problem solved enough for morning
Documented underneath

[End]