[Intro]

Risk report:
Closed.

Security request:
Deferred.

Deletion lock:
Not funded.

Backup test:
Rescheduled.

[Verse 1]

Mara pins the first report
beside the meeting-room display:
“Shared production roles exceed
the minimum required today.”
Priya adds the reviews removed
to make the pipeline move too fast.
Daniel finds the onboarding rule
that never asked how long roles last.

[Pre-Chorus]

Every warning reached a meeting.
Every meeting changed the phrase.

[Chorus]

This was always going to happen!
The warnings line the wall!
This was always going to happen!
No single hand built it all!
The locks were never fitted —
we wrote it down every year!

[Verse 2]

One report asked for deletion locks —
Finance called the price tag too steep.
One asked for one unique project name.
The board said, “Renaming’s a risk.”
One asked for backups stored off-site.
They approved it in a meeting about the meeting.
One asked for two-hand sign-off on delete.
“Manual gates,” they said, “just slow us down.”

[Pre-Chorus]

Jonas stands before the evidence,
reading years before his time.

[Chorus]

This was always going to happen!
The warnings line the wall!
This was always going to happen!
No single hand built it all!
The locks were never fitted —
we wrote it down every year!

[Bridge]

It wasn’t fate. It wasn’t chance.
It wasn’t one unguarded glance.
It was a thousand small delays
that never reached an end.

[Palm-Muted Instrumental Break]

[Final Chorus]

This was always going to happen!
The warnings line the wall!
This was always going to happen!
No single hand built it all!
The locks were never fitted —
we wrote it down every year!

[Reprise]

This was always going to happen.
Don’t call the ending sudden.

[Mara]
You want a cause? Then read the wall, left to right.
The intern struck the match. The company poured the fuel.

[Outro]

Mara draws a line beneath the reports.

On the left:
First warning.

On the right:
Production outage.

Between them:
Six years.

Jonas looks at the final page.

A log export had started
months before his first day.
