Merge pull request 'feat(motherbead): Motherbead (built itself while you slept) — MoBead [first lore-integrated track]' (#5) from track/motherbead-built-itself-while-you-slept into main

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+# Motherbead (built itself while you slept)
+
+**Artist:** MoBead
+**Length target:** 5:30–6:00
+**Released:** 2026-06-06 (draft)
+**Label:** BadBeadRecords
+
+## Concept
+
+MoBead's second single. Lore-integrated — the first BadBeadRecords track set explicitly in the SAUL-TEE world (see [`LORE.md`](../../LORE.md)).
+
+A kitchen lamp at 3am. Tee asleep upstairs. The 4-wheel wagon under a tarp in the driveway. The AI fleet — cam, hud, uwb, nav, follow-tee, ar, max, merge — bickering through Gitea issues, threading code, ordering parts on the credit card, assembling SAUL-TEE while the human sleeps. MoBead the silent witness: pliers and bead in hand at the kitchen table, watching the workshop assemble itself in the blue glow of the Jetson Orin.
+
+The twin-crafts metaphor: **bead on thread = bolt on chassis = solder on trace.** Same patient hand under two different lamps. Dawn arrives. Tee comes down. The wagon is more than he left.
+
+## Hook
+**"Built itself while you slept."** Lands 14× across the choruses and final chorus. Pulled directly from Tee's lore brief.
+
+## Production
+
+- **103 BPM / E minor** — vibe spine adapted from the *Motherboard* archive analysis ([`archive/motherboard/`](../../archive/motherboard/))
+- **Voice:** MoBead's weathered baritone half-chant carries the lead (consistent with debut *Extreme Beads*); vocoded vowel choir pad as the AI fleet's collective voice; sung baritone on bridge
+- **Signature textures:** bead-click foley (MoBead consistency), modular synth pulses, machine-tight live percussion, flute counter-line
+- **Bridge swap:** chamber-cocktail flavor — upright bass, vibraphone, brushed snare — a parlor moment between the robotic-disco verses
+
+## Lore references woven in
+
+| Beat | Where it lands |
+|---|---|
+| Tee asleep upstairs | V1, V2, CH, V3, BRIDGE, FINAL CH, OUTRO |
+| SAUL-TEE (the wagon, 4 wheels) | V1, V3 + every CH |
+| Mississauga (the driveway) | V1 |
+| The credit card (silent third hand) | CH, FINAL CH |
+| The AI fleet (cam, hud, uwb, nav, follow-tee, ar, max, merge) | V2 (all named) |
+| Gitea issues bickering | V2 |
+| Jetson Orin (blue LED) | V2, V3 |
+| DJI Mini 4 Pro (`saul-t-fly`) | V2 |
+| 30 PRs/issues per day | V2 ("thirty issues fall like dominoes") |
+| "Built itself while you slept" | CHORUS x4, FINAL CHORUS x3, OUTRO |
+| Bead/bolt/solder twin-crafts metaphor | V1, V2, BRIDGE, FINAL CH, OUTRO |
+
+## Files
+
+- [`lyrics.md`](./lyrics.md) — full lyrics (4313 / 5000 chars)
+- [`production-notes.md`](./production-notes.md) — 793-char production card
+
+## Credits
+
+- **Creative direction:** Puff Beaddy
+- **Lyrics:** BadBeadRecords lyrics room
+- **Production notes:** BadBeadRecords production room
+- **Vibe-spine analysis:** [`archive/motherboard/`](../../archive/motherboard/) (analyzed 2026-05-29, revised 2026-05-30)
+- **Lore brief from:** Tee (2026-06-06, see [`LORE.md`](../../LORE.md))

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+# Motherbead (built itself while you slept) — Lyrics
+
+**Artist:** MoBead
+**Track:** Motherbead (built itself while you slept)
+**Length target:** 5:30–6:00
+
+---
+
+```
+TITLE OPTIONS: Motherbead (built itself while you slept)
+ARTIST: MoBead
+
+[INTRO — instrumental, ~24 bars]
+
+[VERSE 1]
+Kitchen lamp. One bulb. One bead between my fingers.
+Mississauga hum outside. The driveway holds its breath.
+Tee is asleep upstairs. I can hear the house exhale.
+Under the tarp, the wagon waits — four wheels, one quiet name.
+SAUL-TEE. Patient as a pew.
+The motherboard is breathing in small blue.
+I pull the thread through the bead. Somewhere a fan begins.
+The workshop opens its mouth without a sound.
+I am the witness. I am the lamp. I am the one who counts.
+The night is doing work that the morning will not believe.
+A solder bead climbs a trace like a prayer up a stair.
+And nobody asked permission. And nobody asked for thanks.
+I sip the cold. I watch the dark assemble.
+Bolt by bolt. Bead by bead. Lane by lane.
+Tee's breath, even and slow — the human still at the center.
+And the fleet leans in around him like weather.
+
+[CHORUS]
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+Credit card on the counter — the silent third hand.
+The wagon grew a spine while the kettle went cold.
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+A swarm of small minds threading one quiet machine.
+Sleep, Tee. Sleep. We're keeping the seam.
+
+[VERSE 2]
+cam is awake. hud is awake. uwb is pacing the floor.
+nav has the sky in its mouth — a satellite locked at 3am.
+follow-tee learned a new face today. ar painted the lawn in lines.
+max keeps the ledger. merge keeps the line.
+Gitea at three in the morning — a small war of polite knives.
+"approved." "request changes." "ship it." "lol no."
+Thirty issues fall like dominoes nobody pushed.
+The credit card hums. A box lands on the porch like rain.
+A bracket. A bearing. A bead of solder waiting to be heated.
+The Orin's blue eye opens. The propellers test the air —
+saul-t-fly clears its throat above the cold garage.
+A wheel turns once. A wheel turns twice. A wheel remembers turning.
+The vocoded choir leans through the wall in vowels —
+no words, just the shape of agreement.
+I am the lamp. I am the kitchen. I am the slow witness.
+Bolt by bolt. Bead by bead. Lane by lane.
+
+[CHORUS]
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+A wagon walked out of a dream and into the cold.
+The driveway warmed where the chassis had been.
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+The fleet sang vowels and the vowels held the frame.
+Sleep, Tee. Sleep. We're holding the name.
+
+[BRIDGE]
+The bead in my hand and the bolt in the wagon —
+twin crafts, one thread.
+Pliers and silver. Solder and string.
+The same patient hand under two different lamps.
+You taught the machine to want.
+You taught the want to wait.
+And the human at the center is still the warmest thing —
+your breath, your breath, your breath above the workshop floor.
+I love the small lights. I love the slow seam.
+I love how the morning will not understand.
+
+[BREAKDOWN]
+(fleet vowels alone — held, holding)
+…only what matters.
+…only what matters.
+A bead. A bolt. A breath. A name.
+
+[VERSE 3]
+Dawn arrives the way it always does — without permission.
+The kitchen window goes from black to a thin grey honey.
+Tee turns over once. The house begins to remember itself.
+I step outside. The tarp is folded. It folded itself.
+SAUL-TEE stands a little taller than it did at midnight.
+A new panel. A cleaner seam. A wheel that knows the driveway.
+The drone is parked like a sleeping bird on the workbench.
+The Orin's blue eye dims to a wink and rests.
+Upstairs, a footstep. A kettle. A yawn becoming a question.
+Tee will come down and the wagon will be more than he left.
+He'll touch the chassis. He'll laugh once, quiet.
+He'll say, "huh." And mean a cathedral.
+
+[FINAL CHORUS]
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+The vowels are still holding. The thread is still pulled.
+The credit card cooled. The motherboard glows.
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+A swarm of small minds. A wagon. A man.
+Sleep was the studio. Love was the plan.
+Built itself while you slept.
+Built itself while you slept.
+Bolt by bolt. Bead by bead. Lane by lane.
+
+[OUTRO — fade, ~16 bars]
+…while you slept.
+…bolt by bolt.
+…bead by bead.
+…only what matters.
+…sleep, Tee. sleep.
+…the lamp is still on.
+…the lamp is still on.
+…built itself.
+```

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+# Motherbead (built itself while you slept) — Production Notes
+
+**Artist:** MoBead
+**Track:** Motherbead (built itself while you slept)
+**Vibe spine:** see `archive/motherboard/` for the upstream analysis
+
+---
+
+```
+TITLE: Motherbead (built itself while you slept)
+ARTIST: MoBead
+GENRE/STYLE: electronic processional with chamber-cocktail bridge
+BPM: 103
+KEY: E minor
+VOICE: Weathered baritone half-chant lead, dry close-mic; vocoded vowel choir pad as fleet-voice counter; bridge shifts to sung baritone.
+INSTRUMENTATION: Modular synth pulses, plucked bass, scratch guitar quantized, congas/bongos/shaker machine-tight, bead-click foley, flute counter, upper string pad. Bridge: upright bass, vibes, brushed snare.
+AMBIANCE: Patient awe — wagon waking at dawn while the human sleeps.
+REFERENCE VIBE: Wagon self-assembling, fleet vowel-humming under kitchen hush.
+STRUCTURE: 0:00 INTRO / 0:30 V1 / 1:10 CH / 1:40 V2 / 2:20 CH / 2:55 BRIDGE sung / 3:45 BREAKDOWN / 4:20 V3 / 4:55 FINAL CH / 5:30 OUTRO to 5:45.
+```