[Intro]
The board got smaller after midnight
Three columns, one task left awake

[Verse 1]
Nina:
The amber task sits on the shift board
With an empty owner field
We cut the loops, we named the checks
This one can still drift
A blank field never moves the work
It only waits in place

[Verse 2]
Adrian:
I’m watching the publication clock
We’re already stretched thin
Every handoff slows the line
And the next file’s coming in
You want a name beside each hold
I’m asking what we trade

[Chorus]
Nina:
Put a name on the box
Make the handoff clear
If the check is critical
One person owns the next move
Not a team, not a note
Not a blank owner field
If the record depends on it
Put a name on the box

[Verse 3]
Adrian:
I thought the step itself would hold
Like a rule drawn on the board
But an unnamed warning only sits
While the next file moves ahead
That isn’t a safeguard we can trust
It’s just a pause we called a gate

[Bridge]
Nina:
One field.

Adrian:
One delay.

Nina:
One owner.

Adrian:
One more name.

Nina:
Visible.

Adrian:
Traceable.

Both:
Then we run it that way.

[Chorus]
Nina and Adrian:
Put a name on the box
Make the handoff clear
If the check is critical
One person owns the next move
Not a team, not a note
Not a blank owner field
If the record depends on it
Put a name on the box

Put a name on the box
Let the critical check take time
A task without an owner
Is a check nobody moves

Nina:
I write the name in marker

Adrian:
I check the clock

Both:
The board is revised by morning
Put a name on the box

[Outro]
The amber task stays amber
But now the owner field has a name

[End]