[Verse 1 - Rap] You boxed her lunch beneath the stairs, Wrote names across her borrowed chair. Five of you laughed by locker fourteen, She counted each face, each practiced sneer. [Pre-Chorus] You thought the bell could wash it clean, You thought the hall erased the scene. She kept your words, your little rules, A list held tight beneath her schoolbooks. [Chorus] One by one, you’ll answer for it, No soft excuse, no way around it. You made her small; she learned your names. Now every door swings back the same. No pardon waiting at the end— She came to settle what you did. [Verse 2 - Rap] First, Mara found her locker sealed, Her cruel notes pinned where all could read. Then Tessa heard her own old joke Come back from every desk she’d mocked. Nina’s stolen sketch was shown, The truth in ink, no names unknown. Each girl who joined the laughing line Met what she’d done, returned in kind. [Pre-Chorus] The teachers turned away too late, The hallway filled with whispered dates. She never raised a hand to strike; She made them face their words in light. [Chorus] One by one, you’ll answer for it, No soft excuse, no way around it. You made her small; she learned your names. Now every door swings back the same. No pardon waiting at the end— She came to settle what you did. [Spoken Bridge - low, cold] You called it harmless. You called it nothing. You said she’d get over it. Look at me now. I remember every face. [Final Chorus - harsher layered voices] One by one, you answered for it, No borrowed grin could cover it. You made her small; she learned your names. Now none of you can leave unchanged. No hand reaches out. No amends. The bell rings once. The silence stays. [Outro] The empty desks still hold their place. She walks alone, with no release.
