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 ### **Administrator's Paradise**  
*(Verse 1)*  
Yo, I’m the sysadmin, call me the king of uptime,  
Got the server farm humming like a dope punchline.  
Clocking in at midnight, patching till sunrise,  
Living in the matrix, see the world through root’s eyes.  

Firewalls blazing, keeping threats on lock,  
Logs like a novel, I’m the Sherlock of dock.  
Slack's blowing up, “Hey, the printer won’t connect!”  
Man, I’m solving puzzles like a coder architect.  

*(Hook)*  
**Been spending most my life, in an administrator’s paradise,**  
**Pinging nodes through the night, keeping systems tight.**  
**Living by the console light, in an administrator’s paradise,**  
**Rebooting feels so right, keeping data in sight.**

*(Verse 2)*  
From VPN tunnels to the VLAN maze,  
Balancing load balancers in a cloud-phase craze.  
I got zero-day alerts and zero vacation days,  
Running scripts so clean, you’d think I’m in a play.  

No reboot needed, I hot-swap dreams,  
Docker on my desktop, Kubernetes streams.  
Hackers try to breach, but they meet my wrath,  
Encrypted every packet like I’m teaching math.  

*(Hook)*  
**Been spending most my life, in an administrator’s paradise,**  
**Rolling updates every night, gotta do it right.**  
**Living by the console light, in an administrator’s paradise,**  
**Secured the system airtight, don’t mess with my bytes.**

*(Bridge)*  
Ping-ping, traceroute, find where it’s slow,  
Grepping through the logs, making chaos go.  
Top command flex, CPU under control,  
99.9 uptime, that’s my goal.  

Forget about fame, I’m the ghost in the shell,  
Keeping networks alive, from LAN to DSL.  
Backups so deep, they’re in the Mariana Trench,  
An admin’s life? Yeah, it’s mad intense.  

*(Verse 3)*  
The team calls me wizard, the boss says I’m clutch,  
But no one sees the hours or the coffee I crush.  
So here’s to the admins, in the shadows we dwell,  
Keeping tech alive, like a spell we excel.  

No glory, no shine, but we keep the world turning,  
Fixing one error while another one’s burning.  
Patch Tuesday’s my Friday, scripts are my playlist,  
Administrator’s paradise, welcome to my matrix.  

*(Hook)*  
**Been spending most my life, in an administrator’s paradise,**  
**Scaling nodes by satellite, keeping systems tight.**  
**Living by the console light, in an administrator’s paradise,**  
**Every ping feels right, it’s my digital fight.**

*(Outro)*  
So next time you log in, and everything’s smooth,  
Remember there’s a wizard behind the groove.  
In the admin’s lair, where the servers ignite,  
Welcome to the life, in the console light.