[Intro]
[Low guitar, floor toms and strings strike a nine-beat pattern without a melodic introduction.]

[Verse 1]
Add regional pricing and roles by domain,
Add export controls to the billing mainframe.
Add live reconciliation, instant and clear,
Add records retained for a hundred years.
Add offline access with cloud-level speed,
Add every exception the client may need.
Add backward support for the version withdrawn,
And finish the work by the following dawn.

[Pre-Chorus]
The sentence said “small,” but the diagram spread.
The footnote grew teeth; the appendix turned red.
I asked which demand could be moved from the plan.
They answered, “We need every feature we can.”

[Chorus]
Requirements without end, written after time,
Every “must” becomes another mountain climb.
Requirements without end, breeding in the page,
Every answered question builds a larger cage.
No definition closes; every boundary bends.
The system meets the deadline—requirements never end.

[Verse 2]
The legal team wanted a permanent trace;
The sales team demanded a frictionless space.
The client asked both things in one polished breath:
“Make nothing remembered, but store it till death.”
The mobile team needed the payload made light;
Analytics wanted each movement in sight.
Security ordered all pathways denied;
The demo required every gateway thrown wide.

[Pre-Chorus]
The sentence said “simple,” the schema said “no.”
The mock-up kept changing wherever I’d go.
I listed collisions in columns of ten;
They circled the title and sent it again.

[Chorus]
Requirements without end, written after time,
Every “must” becomes another mountain climb.
Requirements without end, breeding in the page,
Every answered question builds a larger cage.
No definition closes; every boundary bends.
The system meets the deadline—requirements never end.

[Guitar Solo]
[An angular guitar solo follows the nine-beat riff while violins answer in increasingly compressed phrases.]

[Bridge]
Then one quiet comment appeared in the thread:
“Could artificial reasoning handle this instead?”
The room gave a laugh that was brittle and brief,
Then placed that new promise beneath my relief.
One more impossible feature was born:
“Let the machine understand by the morn.”

[Breakdown]
Build it. Teach it.
Test what it knows.
Guard every answer.
Explain how it chose.
Make it seem human.
Keep humans in charge.
Keep it contained.
Make the model large.

[Final Chorus]
Requirements without end, written after time,
Now the final feature is a synthetic mind.
Requirements without end, speaking from the page,
Every human shortcut builds a deeper cage.
No definition closes; every boundary bends.
I finish one command—and another one begins.
Requirements without end.
Without end.

[Outro]
[The riff stops, but a cold synthetic pulse continues at the same nine-beat interval.]