[Intro]

Change the arrow.
Change the heading.
Change the colour
Before the meeting.

[Male Vocal]

No red on the slide.
No red where the Directors decide.
No red in the upper-right side.
No red on the slide.

[Verse]

The invitation says "alignment,"
Room twelve, eight-thirty, sharp,
A printed deck lies by each chair,
Its warnings changed to dark.

The risk map once had crimson squares
Around the Phoenix core,
Now every square is amber gold,
And one is there no more.

[Chorus]

No red on the slide,
Keep the danger classified,
Make the edges clean and wide,
No red on the slide.

Let the language be our guide—
The problem stays outside.

[Female Vocal]

"The payment service may collapse.
The recovery plan has open gaps.
The migration has not been tried.
Those facts require red on the slide."

[Male Vocal]

"Red implies we have no plan.
Red may worry Finance and Brand.
We need a balanced enterprise view.
Amber offers room to move."

[Verse]

Irene holds the printed page,
Her thumbnail pressed into the frame,
Beside the line "Recovery ready,"
Someone has removed her name.

The Director enters, checks the clock,
Then checks the colour on the wall,
He never asks which servers fail.
He asks why one box looks too small.

[Chorus]

No red on the slide,
Keep the danger classified,
Make the edges clean and wide,
No red on the slide.

If the colour stays outside—
The problem cannot enter inside.

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

No red in the heading, the key, or the footnote where someone might see.
No red in the timeline, the cost, or the days that the engineers lost.
No red for the contract, the code, or the backup that never once showed.

[Build-up]

Irene closes the edited deck.
She opens the source and restores the text.
Cell after cell, she turns them bright,
Not out of rage, but because they're right.

[Final Chorus]

There will be red on the slide,
Where the evidence cannot hide,
Where the tested facts reside,
There will be red on the slide.

Not for theatre, fear, or pride—
"Phoenix Status: Unmodified."

[Outro]

Change the arrow.
Keep the heading.
Keep the colour.
Attend the meeting.