Nobody Home Don't Mean Come In
Plays in the dock at the bottom of the page, so it keeps going while you read on.
Lyrics
Got a stranger at the ledger, says he's kin to the crew
No paper in the drawer, boys, don't know what he's due
Some men say wave him through, give the man his key
I say lock the door until the file agrees
Nobody home don't mean come in
Nobody home don't mean come in
If I don't know your number, you don't get to win
Nobody home don't mean come in
Started with one visitor slipped through the back gate
Others saw it happen, boys, said that must be fate
Copied down the same crack into every door in town
By the time the sheriff counted, the whole house was down
Nobody home don't mean come in
Nobody home don't mean come in
If I don't know your number, you don't get to win
Nobody home don't mean come in
(voice and handclaps)
Don't ask me who to stop
Ask me who I let
Every name gets checked and signed
Before the vault is set
A key that's never cut for you
Won't open up by chance
I'm collecting on the doubt, boys
Not giving you the dance
Write the names down clean, lock the rest outside
Write the names down clean, let the rest abide
A missing role ain't mercy, no, it's just the debt undue
Nobody home, my friend, don't mean come in for you
The band
The Technical Debt Collectors
A gravelly, swaggering voice calling out over a band that struts. Twelve-bar phrasing with a repeated opening line, and a lyric that is all debt, interest, collection and somebody eventually paying.
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 The Danger of Treating a Missing Role as Full Access.
Secure systems should deny access when permissions are unknown. Treating missing roles as unrestricted access is a subtle mistake that can expose sensitive functionality across an entire application.
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