Room To Rollnew
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Lyrics
The screen went red at two minutes flat (two minutes flat)
The old one held the door the way it should (way it should)
But the new one had no bed to lay its head (lay its head)
Every room was booked and gone for good (gone for good)
So it waited while they built another house (another house)
Leave it room to roll, give the swap a little space (a little space)
For a moment there are two of them inside the same old place (same old place)
Leave it room to roll, and wait as long as it can take (it can take)
Count the slowest day, then add some more for safety's sake
I cut the booking half, but I'll tell you true (tell you true)
There was no meter hanging on the wall (on the wall)
So I wrote it on the box, this number's just a clue (just a clue)
If they start getting thrown out, raise it, that's the call (that's the call)
A guess with a label has somebody to own it (own it)
Leave it room to roll, give the swap a little space (a little space)
For a moment there are two of them inside the same old place (same old place)
Leave it room to roll, and wait as long as it can take (it can take)
Count the slowest day, then add some more for safety's sake
Keep the ceiling where it stood (where it stood)
Trim the promise, not the guard (not the guard)
Don't just chase the red away (red away)
Ask what it's waiting on (waiting on)
Leave it room to roll, give the swap a little space
For a moment there are two of them inside the same old place
Leave it room to roll, and wait as long as it can take
Count the slowest day, then add some more for safety's sake
Room to roll (room to roll)
Tell the truth about the time (about the time)
Room to roll
The band
The Support Act
The house band, borrowing a familiar song's shape - the same line lengths, rhyme scheme and place for the hook - so it scans the way you expect. The words are entirely new and about the post, never about the original, and never quote it.
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 Rolling Deploy Needs Room To Roll.
A deploy that times out while the release itself succeeds is usually a capacity problem in disguise, and the fix is to leave headroom for the swap and to be honest about what you have not measured.