Nobody Checks Twice

You filled a glass from the tap and drank it down Never tested it, never asked around Never met the engineer who built the line Never met the inspector who signed off it was fine

Nobody checks twice, and somehow it still works A thousand strangers' hands, and none of them shirked The plane, the bridge, the food you didn't grow The whole day runs on trust you don't even know you show

You handed over money for a coffee to a face you'd never seen Trusted a paper promise, a number on a screen That someone somewhere honors, that a bank somewhere holds true A story everyone agreed to, and keeps agreeing to

Nobody checks twice, and somehow it still works A thousand strangers' hands, and none of them shirked This is the quiet infrastructure underneath the loud The scaffolding of trust holding up the whole crowd

It's built the slow way, one kept promise at a time on the road Nowhere written down, nowhere carved into a single code A vendor who doesn't cheat you becomes a vendor you return to see A neighbor who returns the tool becomes a neighbor you trust freely

Nobody checks twice, and somehow it still works A thousand strangers' hands, and none of them shirked Trust compounds like interest, quietly, over years Break it once, and watch how fast the whole structure disappears

A city where nobody trusts the water, the food, the news Checks everything twice, and still ends up confused Grinds slower, costs more, keeps everyone's guard up high Trust is the cheapest infrastructure a society can buy

Nobody checks twice, and somehow it still works A thousand strangers' hands, and none of them shirked So the next small promise that you keep without a fuss Is a brick in a bridge that holds up all of us

Nobody checks twice, and somehow it still works A thousand strangers' hands, and none of them shirked You'll never meet most of the people holding up your day Thank them anyway, and hold your own end up the same way