[Intro]

Open the source.
Restore the row.
Return the dates
They chose not to show.

[Verse]

Irene works beyond the lights,
Past cleaning carts and server nights,
The office windows hold the town,
A grid of amber looking down.

She opens Phoenix Plan One-Four,
Before the milestones crossed the floor,
Before "expected" became "aimed,"
Before the risks were re-explained.

[Pre-Chorus]

Put the owner by the task.
Put the answer by the ask.
Put the baseline where it ran.
Let the record stand as it began.

[Chorus]

Publish the real plan,
Every broken date and span,
Every promise, every hand,
Publish the real plan.

No convenient "as we stand"—
Let the evidence command.

[Verse]

She brings the May commitment back,
Restores the critical-path track,
Returns the vendor's leaving day,
The unsigned contract, test delay.

She writes beside the Phoenix core:
"Recovery design incomplete."
She names the staffing deficit
And every task without a lead.

[Chorus]

Publish the real plan,
Every broken date and span,
Every promise, every hand,
Publish the real plan.

Let the evidence command—
No convenient "as we stand."

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

This is not revenge in red,
Not a courtroom plea, not dread—
A plan must show the ground we're on,
Or every next decision's wrong.

[Build-up]

She adds one line beneath the chart:
"Recovery requires a restart"—
The cost, the staff, the time, the truth.

At two sixteen the file is sealed,
At two seventeen the truth revealed,
At two eighteen it reached the plan.

[Final Chorus]

Publish the real plan,
Let the consequences land,
No more dates erased by hand,
Publish the real plan.

Let tomorrow understand:
This was always the real plan.

[Outro]

The progress bar returns to grey.
The launch returns to no fixed day.
The red cells wait for morning eyes.
The plan is ugly. The plan is right.