Time Saved

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From Tales from the Decryption. A software engineer with five AI agents tallies the hours they saved him, until his wife asks when he last had a free afternoon. Ten thousand hours saved, and not one of them left.

Lyrics

[Intro]
[Ticking clock, bright synth]

[Verse 1]
Five a.m., the coffee's poured,
Five little dashboards light the board,
Yesterday I did a week of work
Before my lunch got cold.
I keep a tally on a sticky note
Of every hour the agents wrote—
Forty hours saved by noon,
Solid gold.

[Pre-Chorus]
And what do you do with an hour you saved?
You spend it, you spend it, you spend it!

[Chorus]
Look at all the time I saved,
Watch the little numbers climb—
I'm a hundred men, I'm a factory floor,
I've never had so much time!
I saved a thousand hours,
And I spent 'em all on more!

[Verse 2]
One project's easy, so I started two,
Two were easy, so I started four,
Every door the robots open
Opens up another door.
They finish jobs while I'm asleep,
So I quit sleeping—who needs sleep?
Somebody's gotta check their work,
And all that work's for me!

[Pre-Chorus]
And what do you do with an hour you saved?
You spend it, you spend it, you spend it!

[Chorus]
Look at all the time I saved,
Watch the little numbers climb—
I'm a hundred men, I'm a factory floor,
I've never had so much time!
I saved a thousand hours,
And I spent 'em all on more!

[Bridge - Half-time]
She leaned against the doorway,
Asked me, soft and clear,
"When's the last free afternoon you had?"
I said, "Hang on, I'll check. It's here..."
So I did the math out loud for her:
Forty hours a day,
Five days a week, fifty weeks a year—
Ten thousand hours saved.

[Break]

[Spoken]
So where'd they go?
Nobody took 'em.
I handed 'em over, one at a time.

[Verse 3]
Five a.m., the coffee's poured,
Same old sun on the same old board,
But there's a new release on Tuesday
Makes the agents twice as fast,
And when they're twice as fast, I swear
I'll take my Sundays back—
I just gotta set it up first,
Then I'll rest at last.

[Final Chorus]
Look at all the time I'll save,
Watch the little numbers climb—
I'm a thousand men, I'm a factory floor,
I've never had so much time!
I saved ten thousand hours,
And I spent 'em all on more!

[Outro - Spoken]
Okay. Just one more.

[Ticking clock]
[End]

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