[Intro]

Monday, 10:05
Reception calls upstairs:
"Maxwell Price from OmniCore
Says he was already near"
He enters with no black brochure —
Only the smile from signing day

[Verse]

"Victor, I received your notice
And I came here as a friend —
Strong relationships can stumble
Without needing them to end
I obtained a rare exception:
Twenty percent, exclusively for you
We'll include a strategy workshop
At no added cost at all"

[Pre-Chorus]

Victor touches the folder corner
Old arithmetic begins
Twenty percent can make a prison
Look affordable again

[Chorus]

Twenty percent off forever
Sign for three years more today
Twenty percent off forever
While the other prices change
Nothing costs too much to carry
When it's twenty percent away

[Verse]

Maxwell says, "Your export project
Shows a real, uncommon skill —
Imagine what we could accomplish
With a bit more goodwill"
Ben says, "The defect was known
Before you blamed it on our side"
Mara takes the golden folder
Klaus says, "No. The deal is done."

[Chorus]

Twenty percent off forever
Sign for three years more today
Twenty percent off forever
While the other prices change
Nothing costs too much to carry
When it's twenty percent away

[Slide Guitar Solo]

[Call and Response]

[Maxwell]
Think about disruption

[Team]
We already paid that price

[Maxwell]
Think about the cost of leaving

[Team]
We built the road ourselves at night

[Maxwell]
Think about the board's perception

[Team]
They can read the evidence too

[Bridge]

[Maxwell]
Think about our shared direction

[Team]
It never once belonged to you

[Break]

Victor reaches for the folder
For a second, no one moves
Mara pulls it from the table
Priya takes the silver pen
Ben places the resolved ticket
Across the signature again
Klaus slides the folder firmly back:
"No percentage makes dependence a plan"

[Final Chorus]

Twenty percent off forever
Is not freedom, is not better
No reduction in the invoice
Cuts the hand behind the tether
Keep your discount, keep your workshop —
We are never signing in

[Reprise]

[Maxwell]
One last chance to work together

[Team]
Keep your discount, keep your workshop —
We are never signing in

Maxwell straightens both his cufflinks,
Retrieves the golden case
For the first time since the demo,
Nothing answers in his face

At the doorway he turns lightly:
"All decisions can be changed"
Then the elevator takes him
Down through fourteen numbered frames

Klaus turns off the old test server
The slide guitar plays the contract motif —
Then changes the final two
Four notes rise and find an ending
Owned by those who paid the cost

[Outro]

Victor watches till the doors close
Mara rips the quote in two

The office coffee starts at seven
And no vendor tells it what to do
