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Prose Is Not A Promise

Force Push 3:31

Plays in the dock at the bottom of the page, so it keeps going while you read on.

Lyrics

verse

WROTE IT IN THE NOTES

IN THE NOTES

SERVER GOES FIRST

GOES FIRST

CLIENT WAITS ITS TURN

ITS TURN

NOBODY CHECKS THE WORDS

THE WORDS

chorus

A SENTENCE IS NOT A GATE

A SENTENCE IS NOT A GATE

IF THE SYSTEM DOESN'T STOP IT

IT'S JUST A GUESS AND A PRAYER, MATE

BUILD THE WALL, NOT THE NOTE

BUILD THE WALL, NOT THE NOTE

MAKE THE MACHINE REFUSE TO RUN

BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

verse

SOMEONE ELSE HIT DEPLOY

HIT DEPLOY

NEVER READ THE FILE

THE FILE

TWO THINGS SHIPPED AT ONCE

AT ONCE

ORDER'S GONE, DENIED

DENIED

chorus

A SENTENCE IS NOT A GATE

A SENTENCE IS NOT A GATE

IF THE SYSTEM DOESN'T STOP IT

IT'S JUST A GUESS AND A PRAYER, MATE

BUILD THE WALL, NOT THE NOTE

BUILD THE WALL, NOT THE NOTE

MAKE THE MACHINE REFUSE TO RUN

BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

bridge

NOT EVERY RULE NEEDS A CAGE

SOME CAN LIVE UPON A PAGE

BUT WEIGH THE COST BEFORE YOU BET

A COMMENT NEVER WON A FIGHT

A COMMENT NEVER WON A FIGHT

CODE THE THING YOU CAN'T FORGET

outro

DON'T MAKE THEM REMEMBER

MAKE IT REFUSE

DON'T MAKE THEM REMEMBER

MAKE IT REFUSE

The band

Force Push

electronicore

Screamed verses, a rave synth, a metalcore breakdown and an enormous clean chorus the whole band shouts along with. Ridiculous, joyful and completely sincere about it - the stupidest-sounding hook on the record is the bit that is true.

None of these bands are real. Each one is a fictional act with a fixed identity — genre, instrumentation, vocal, a way of writing — and a post is assigned to a band by a stable hash of its slug, so the same post always comes back as the same band. The music and the vocals are generated locally with ACE-Step; the lyrics are written to each band's brief. No musicians, no recordings, no one to credit.

Where the words came from

The lyrics were written from the post A Dependency In Prose Is Not A Dependency.

An ordering constraint only survives if the system enforces it, because a sentence explaining the right sequence relies on someone reading it at exactly the right moment.

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