[Intro]

Unroll the paper. Clear the wall.
Give me twelve white metres all.
Pin my corners, smooth my face.
I contain the coming days.

[Verse]

I was born from workshop notes,
Assumptions, estimates and votes,
From coloured blocks and careful hands,
The future rendered into bands.

I know the hour the code will freeze.
I know when testing will release.
I know the week the users train.
I know the launch, the cost, the gain.

[Chorus]

I am the Gantt Chart Prophecy,
Every date arranged for me,
Every arrow claims to see
What has not yet come to be.

Hang your confidence on me—
I remain your certainty.

[Verse]

My forty-seven arrows run
From work not started to work done,
My critical path is crimson thread,
Through teams reassigned and servers dead.

I hold a training course in June
For software due in late monsoon,
I show acceptance signed in March
By someone who resigned in March.

[Female Vocal]

You speak in boxes, not in breath.
You have no field for doubt or depth.
You show a line, but not the cost
When one delayed decision's lost.

[Male Vocal]

I show the plan that was approved.
I do not know when people moved.
I am the future you required.
Do not blame the chart you hired.

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

The organ counts in seven beats—
July folds into April's frame.
The five-note phrase begins to climb,
The final note falls out of time.

[Soft Verse]

Irene stands beneath the sheet,
Its paper curls above her feet,
A tiny mark beside a row
Says "baseline subject to review."

She finds a cell concealed in grey:
"Contingency: minus eighteen days."
The prophecy was never wrong.
They changed the measure all along.

[Build-up]

The chart declares the launch complete
Before the systems ever meet.
It prints the future, line by line,
Then asks the present to comply.

[Final Chorus]

I am the Gantt Chart Prophecy,
Every false dependency,
Every borrowed certainty
Drawn as inevitability.

When the Phoenix fails to fly—
Change the month, but keep me high.

[Outro]

The office empties. Paper sways.
One arrow loosens from the page.
It points beyond the final row
To somewhere no report can show.