[Intro]

Risk number twelve, severity high,
Probability climbing, response overdue,
Owner unavailable, deadline nearby,
Recommended status: red review.

[Verse]

The database may lose the names
Of every customer it saves,
The failover has never run,
The backup contract is not signed.

Irene writes the wording plain:
"Critical risk of service failure."
The committee circles "critical,"
Then asks if there is wording safer.

[Chorus]

Risk reclassified,
Turn the warning on its side,
Call the fire "local heat,"
Call defeat "a partial feat."

Lower truth and raise the slide—
Only how the danger's named.

[Male Vocal]

"Critical" may cause alarm.
"Significant" retains the harm.
"Material" sounds more controlled.

Replace "failure" with "constraint."
Replace "missing" with "awaits."
The risk is now reclassified.

[Verse]

Risk number eight has lost its lead,
Risk number nine has doubled need,
Risk twenty-one has no design,
Risk thirty-four is out of time.

They split one red risk into four,
Then average colours on the board,
Two amber, one green, one undefined,
The total risk appears benign.

[Chorus]

Risk reclassified,
Turn the warning on its side,
Call the fire "local heat,"
Call defeat "a partial feat."

Nothing changed beneath the phrase—
Only how the danger's named.

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

A leak becomes a moisture event.
A breach becomes an access trend.
A vendor leaving in a week
Becomes "commercial movement peak."

[Heavy Breakdown]

Change the title. Keep the threat.
Move the owner. Lose the debt.
Lower impact. Stretch the date.
Mark it amber. Circulate.

[Build-up]

Irene locks the original sheet,
Each sentence sharp, each measure complete,
She keeps the words the meeting denied,
The unrevised risk classified.

[Final Chorus]

Risk reclassified,
But the servers do not reed the slide,
They do not soften when we say
A total loss is "minor delay."

You can rename the rising tide—
But water stays on either side.

[Outro]

Risk number twelve, severity high.
Probability certain, response overdue.
The committee closes. The numbers testify.
The label changed. The risk stayed true.