Stop the Line
Roadhouse VersionA country/roadhouse reinterpretation by the band's alter ego, Throughput Mojo, off the EP Bottleneck Saloon. Same lyrics, different barstool.
// LYRICS — same words, different bar
[Intro] Cord hanging. Alarm blinking. Everybody sees it. Nobody's saying. [Verse 1] We wrote the risk in lowercase Then shipped it with a smiling face The warning flashed, we called it fine Another corpse beside the line Missing spec and broken test Everybody knows the rest We made a scar into a style Then called the damage versatile [Chorus] Stop the line If it's wrong, don't make it rhyme Stop the line No more later, no more fine Don't bless the wound And call it shipping Pull the cord The whole floor's listening [Verse 2] First time failed, we called it rare Second time, we learned to stare Third time, someone made a chart Fourth time, it became "just part" Part of launch, part of cost Part of what we always lost Fifth time, nobody pulled the cord Now the defect owns the floor [Bridge] Normalization of deviance Is how the broken learns to stay Normalization of deviance Is how the warning fades away [Breakdown] Is it fixed? No. Is it owned? No. Is it safe? No. Then why go? Stop. The. Line. Pull. The. Cord. [Final Chorus] Stop the line If it's wrong, don't make it rhyme Stop the line No more later, no more fine Don't bless the wound And call it shipping Pull the cord The whole floor's listening PULL IT NOW!!!