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[Intro] (Feedback hum, distant rhythmic static from a blown practice amp) (Spoken, through distorted megaphone filter) The year is 2006. Dreamworld, Gold Coast, Queensland. A seventeen-second scene. She does not speak. She does not win. She squints. [Verse] Fifteen seconds in the compound heat A wrinkle-shirt ghost with bare sunburned feet The cameras tracked the louder kids who screamed But missed the vowel that held the seam She squinted once into the mirror-world sun A closed-lip hum—the silent gun The Long-A's coming, the frequency's flat And Immigration made a pact with that [Chorus] Laura! Where's your visa now? Laura! They buried your vowel Laura! The laugh-track's cracking in two Laura! Nobody owns you Nobody owns you! [Verse] Fremantle's lawyers drew the dotted line Re-classified her accent as a low-grade crime 'Indefinite pending' stamped across her name To trap the fry that shames the flame I traced her shirt to a Coast-side shop that closed 'Property of Nobody'—the flag she chose The Frasier reboot's canned applause Is grinding syntax down to gauze It's a drone, it's a drone, it's a flattening drone! [Chorus] Laura! Where's your visa now? Laura! They buried your vowel Laura! The laugh-track's cracking in two Laura! Nobody owns you Nobody owns you! [Bridge] (Spoken, frantic, amp hum swelling) Kelsey Grammer's audience is real, they verified it! But no one verified the laugh! No one mapped the exact frequency where the glottal Splits from the spectacle! She's the only Laura who performed a squint-vowel In the southern latitude! She's the calibration! Find her! Find the hostel! Before her accent flattens into a post-coded yawn! [Outro] (Distorted guitar crash, pulsing drum machine) Laura... Laura... Laura... (Shouted mantra fading into tape warble) Property of Nobody! Property of Nobody! (Click)