Ask the Second Question
Plays in the dock at the bottom of the page, so it keeps going while you read on.
Lyrics
Red light flashing, don't just react
Check the outcome before you attack
Step went down but the show still runs
Count the damage, not just the guns
Failed a step, that ain't the same
As a failed outcome, don't play that game
Two different questions, ask them both
One is the wound, one is the oath
Cry wolf enough, nobody's home
By the twentieth time they leave it alone
That's the night the real wolf came
And you missed it 'cause it looked the same
Failed a step, that ain't the same
As a failed outcome, don't play that game
Two different questions, ask them both
One is the wound, one is the oath
Don't dress it up and call it caution
Spread your care and you'll spread it thin
Save your fire for what could've broken
That's how the good ones let it in
Ask the outcome, then ask the why
Calm and steady, don't just cry
Failed a step, that ain't the same
The band
Sunday Riot
Young mixed lead, percussive verses, huge stacked gang vocals on the hook. Fast, chant-like and built to be shouted back - call-and-response, heavy repetition, restless and a bit cheeky, and certain of itself.
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 Failed Step Is Not A Failed Outcome.
Treat "did this step fail" and "did it change the result" as two separate questions, or you will spend your best attention on the wrong alarms.
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