[INTRO — instrumental, watery synth pads, rumbling 808] [HOOK — hypnotic chant, half-sung] All hands, all hands (all hands) Everybody clapping, nobody stands All hands, all hands (all hands) Smile for the slide deck, we understand All hands [VERSE 1 — melodic half-sung sliding into clipped flow] Calendar invite, no agenda, nine A.M. (here we go) All-hands — that's corporate for hold your breath Debra from accounting got a look she never wore And the good snacks in the meeting room, which means there's more Than donuts riding on this — everybody's phone Face-down like a poker table, everybody's tone Calibrated to casual — great quarter, they begin Then a slide called restructuring wipes the whole room thin Smiles stay on — that's the skill nobody puts on the resume Nod along, take a muffin, ask about the timeline, babe Like it's weather — like we weren't just rearranged Into boxes on a chart where half the names are strange [VERSE 2 — faster, clipped] Back at my desk, the Slack goes quiet-loud Nobody typing, everybody in a cloud Of calculator math — mortgage, daycare, lease Priya's on her visa, Marcus is a month from his lease On a car he can't return — I update nothing yet I just water my desk plant and I light a cigarette Of the mind — I don't smoke — I just stand outside And watch the building glow like it's got nothing to hide Then Priya comes down and we don't talk shop at all We talk about her mom's cooking and the festival this fall And somehow that's the meeting that actually mattered Two people on a curb while the org chart shattered [HOOK — hypnotic chant, half-sung] All hands, all hands (all hands) Everybody clapping, nobody stands All hands, all hands (all hands) Smile for the slide deck, we understand All hands [BRIDGE — pads swell, voice raw] Whatever they decide on the fourteenth floor They can't restructure what the curb is for We'll be fine — whatever that means now We'll be fine — we always are, somehow (all hands) [HOOK — hypnotic chant, full] All hands, all hands (all hands) Everybody clapping, nobody stands All hands, all hands (all hands) Smile for the slide deck, we understand [OUTRO — pads fade, voice distant] (all hands... all hands...) Priya's mom makes a biryani That no slide can touch
