[Intro]

Quarter closes Friday night
Red numbers waiting on the right
Maxwell lays the folder down
And lets the golden edges shine

[Verse]

"Victor, I would hate to see
This opportunity expire
Regional approval came this morning
Just before I joined the wire
Thirty seats at founder pricing
Gone the moment we don't sign"
The board begins to whisper
Finance turns the pages blind

[Pre-Chorus]

No one reads a moving target
No one checks a closing door
When the discount has a heartbeat
And the clock demands some more

[Chorus]

Sign before the quarter ends
Sign before the number bends
Sign before the offer dies
Trust the future, trust your friends
There'll be time to comprehend
Just sign before the quarter ends

[Verse]

Mara reaches for the schedule
"Where's the exit clause defined?"
Maxwell slides a summary toward her
"With respect, we're short on time"
Klaus is scanning page two-forty
Where the type turns faint and small
Victor says, "We cannot lose this"
And nobody reads it all

[Pre-Chorus]

Every question costs a minute
Every minute kills the deal
Urgency can turn a warning
Into something less than real

[Chorus]

Sign before the quarter ends
Sign before the number bends
Sign before the offer dies
Trust the future, trust your friends
There'll be time to comprehend
Just sign before the quarter ends

[Guitar Break]

[Bridge]

The drums pull back, the bass walks on
A legal clock approaches dawn
Maxwell counts: one for savings
Seven for the choice you make

[Build-up]

The pages turn, the room grows warm
The pen lies quiet before the storm
Mara says, "Delay one day"
Victor looks the other way
Maxwell whispers, "The bold move never waits"

[Final Chorus]

Sign before the quarter ends
Sign the clause no one defends
Sign the modules not yet named
Buy the platform, rent the fence
Three hundred pages, signed unread
Long after the quarter ends

[Outro]

Silver pen on golden grain
Victor signs the company name

Maxwell closes up the case
Quarter saved across his face

The organ rolls, the guitars run
The deal is closed. The trap's begun.
