[Intro: Narrator, Young Female Spoken]
One sheet on six. One sheet on five.
By seven in the morning,
every door wore the same white page.

[Verse 1: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
"Major renovation," black letters, red date;
"Vacate in ninety days," the notice states.
No person's name signed, just Northline below,
A sheet of legal language telling families to go.
Ma studies it twice; more footsteps fill the stairs;
Mr. Grant takes pictures; the twins copy theirs.
Then Lila rings Rafi's bell down the hall;
One sharp alarm, and the neighbors start to call.

[Chorus: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
Notice on every door, red on white,
Same cold sentence on every floor tonight.
You can price the plaster, measure every chair;
You cannot call it empty while we're living there.
Notice on every door, ninety days on the page;
We say it aloud so the whole block knows the stakes.

[Verse 2: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
Mrs. Cole calls the number; a recording plays.
Alvarez checks the dates against what Lena says.
We knock every unit, copy every page,
Translate what we can before rumor sets the pace.
A woman on two has a child due in June;
A man on the first keeps oxygen in his room.
Ninety days looks long on a calendar square;
It shrinks when every listing costs more than you can bear.

[Chorus: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
Notice on every door, red on white,
Same cold sentence on every floor tonight.
You can price the plaster, measure every chair;
You cannot call it empty while we're living there.
Notice on every door, ninety days on the page;
We say it aloud so the whole block knows the stakes.

[Verse 3: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
Lena arrives with a binder of notes:
"Ask for the plans. Challenge what they wrote.
Nothing is certain. The process may move slow;
Save each envelope. Track who comes and goes."
That night my phone lights with an offer in blue:
"Six months' rent to relocate, confidential to you."
Enough to split the room, not enough for a start;
I print it and lay it beside the basement chart.

[Call: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
Who got the offer?
[Response: Mixed Tenant Crowd]
Half of the floor.
[Call: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
What do we do?
[Response: Mixed Tenant Crowd]
Bring every copy through the basement door.

[Verse 4: Ma, Mature Female Rap]
Local cameras gather outside by the gate;
They ask for one sentence to carry the debate.
I pin my work badge beside the page in view:
"I work in this city. My neighbors do too.
These jobs need our labor; your rents make us leave.
Who are these new towers being built to receive?"
I hold up the paper. The lens catches the hall,
Every doorway behind me with a name on the wall.

[Instrumental Break][Octave Rhodes strikes the Calder motif against heavy kick-and-snare breaks while paper slaps act as syncopated accents.]

[Bridge: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
A threat feels different when everybody sees,
When copies hang together beside rows of keys.
Courage still costs when the savings run low;
We move with the clock. We do not move alone.

[Final Chorus: Narrator and Mixed Tenant Crowd]
Notice on every door, red on white,
Same cold sentence, but we answer tonight.
You can price the plaster, measure every chair;
You cannot call it empty while we're standing there.
Notice on every door, ninety days on the page;
Every copy bears a name they cannot erase.

[Outro: Narrator, Young Female Spoken]
At midnight, every notice remains.
Beside each one,
we tape a name.
