[Intro]

Draft statement:

“At approximately ten seventeen,
an inexperienced temporary employee
performed an unauthorized action.”

Publish status:
Pending approval.

[Verse 1]

Victor walks in without a coat.
Comms department takes their notes.
Legal opens with one demand:
“Identify the acting hand.”
Leon says, “I asked for cleanup —
not for deletion rights, not this.”
The consultant joins by video:
“The documentation was precise.”

[Pre-Chorus]

No one mentions the missing gates.
No one mentions the six-year wait.

[Chorus]

Blame the intern!
Name him now!
Close the story!
Take a bow!
Blame the intern —
make the failure small!

[Verse 2]

Victor says, “Remove his access.”
Mara answers, “What’s left to strip?”
Leon opens the first ticket,
rewrites “remove” to “review” instead.
The audit log still holds the rest.
The consultant sends one flat paragraph:
“Correct interpretation was required.”
Sabine asks, “Who trained this kid?”

[Pre-Chorus]

Someone writes “shared responsibility.”
Legal crosses it out again.

[Chorus]

Blame the intern!
Name him now!
Close the story!
Take a bow!
Blame the intern —
make the failure small!

[Breakdown]

Cut the chain!

Hide the role!

Blur the years!

Burn one name!

[Bridge]

[Jonas]
I killed the company.

[Ben]
No. You ran a line they handed you.
Stay here — save what you remember.
We’ll put the years on record.

[Down-Picked Guitar Solo]

[Final Chorus]

Blame the intern!
Name him now!
Close the story!
Take a bow!
Blame the intern —
make the failure small!

[Reprise]

Blame the intern if you need to.
We’ll bring the records in.

A failure built by every level
does not end where he begins.

[Outro]

Victor reviews the statement.

He changes “unauthorized”
to “unintended.”

He changes “temporary employee”
to “individual user.”

He leaves the cause unchanged.

Across the room,
Mara starts taping risk reports to the wall.
