She traced the hook in her mind all day. The chorus was simple, an invocation: hands open, do not hold back; a promise wrapped in a cadence older than maps. In the afternoon, when traffic hummed like an impatient ocean, the melody kept surfacing in unlikely places — a vendor tapping rhythm on a crate, a child whistling between teeth, the distant clatter of a boda boda. It was as if the town itself was learning the song.