The Code That Never Changed

[Verse] Down by the cubicles Where the blue light glows The click of keyboards The hush of hopes Young souls in sweaters Eyes on the screen With dreams of code To change the unseen [Verse 2] Stacked in meetings Ideas run high Syntax and systems Under fluorescent sky But deadlines pressed And caffeine gave way To bugs in the night And fixes by day [Chorus] But the code never changed Despite all their might Lines of ambition Lost in the night From zeros to nothing The dream turned strange In the halls of IT Nothing rearranged