Where Have All the Tasks gone?

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I click submit inside the app
A task is born, just like that
A clean design, a trusted flow
They told me this is how things go

The button fades, the screen feels calm
The system says it did no harm
But somewhere in the silent glow
I start to wonder, soft and slow

[Chorus]
Where all the tasks go?
Nobody seems to know
Where all the tasks go?
They were here just moments ago

[Verse 2]
The system’s modern, built with care
Distributed parts everywhere
Each service plays its little role
Together forming one big whole

They call it scalable and clean
The best design we’ve ever seen
But deep inside the moving chain
The signal fades, then comes the pain

[Chorus]
Where all the tasks go?
Through systems running slow
Where all the tasks go?
The dashboards never show

[Verse 3]
They say the stream is called Kafka
It moves the data far and faster
From service here to service there
Reliable, or so we swear

But sometimes in that steady stream
A task escapes the perfect dream
It does not fail, it does not stay
It simply fades and slips away

[Chorus]
Where all the tasks go?
Into the data flow
Where all the tasks go?
Nobody really knows

[Verse 4]
Someone whispers late one night
“There is a place out of plain sight”
A quiet room, a hidden queue
Where broken messages accrue

No warning sound, no flashing light
Just silent errors out of sight
The users ask in polite tone
And still the answer’s never known

[Chorus]
Where all the tasks go?
Into a place below
Where all the tasks go?
We hoped they would not go

[Verse 5]
A ticket then is quickly made
Assigned, delayed, reshuffled, played
Logs are read at night and dawn
We ask ourselves what went wrong

And in the end the circle shows
A brand new task is born and goes
It starts again the same old way
And might return… or drift away

[Final Chorus]
Where all the tasks go?
Now everybody knows
Where all the tasks go?
They come and go in endless flow

Where all the tasks go?
In systems we compose
Where all the tasks go?
We ask again… heaven knows