L[Intro — spoken] There was a room. Everyone saw what happened. Everyone assumed someone else would say something. [Verse 1] One person started talking. Two people let it land. Three people heard the warning and quietly changed their plans. Somebody had the screenshots. Somebody knew the source. Somebody watched the door close and called it complicated. Nobody held the veil. Nobody made the call. Nobody thought they were responsible. That’s how it covered all of us. [Pre-Chorus] It wasn’t one person. It was the passing of the weight. “It’s not my place.” “It’s not my problem.” “Someone else will set it straight.” [Chorus] Someone else will lift the veil. Someone else will pay the cost. Someone else will tell the truth about everything that’s been lost. Someone else will fund the work. Someone else will make it safe. Someone else will stand beside the person everybody says they want to save. But someone else is not a plan. Someone else is not a name. If you saw it, you’re involved now. Put your money where your mouth is. Put your body in the frame. [Verse 2] You said you didn’t know enough. You said you couldn’t choose a side. But you knew enough to disappear. You knew enough to let me slide. You wanted all the benefits of being seen as kind— the language, the movement, the moral high ground— without the inconvenient labor of interrupting the lie. [Pre-Chorus] The bystander is not neutral when the damage has a pattern. Silence is a hand on the scale when one person bears what happened. [Chorus] Someone else will lift the veil. Someone else will pay the cost. Someone else will tell the truth about everything that’s been lost. Someone else will fund the work. Someone else will make it safe. Someone else will stand beside the person everybody says they want to save. But someone else is not a plan. Someone else is not a name. If you saw it, you’re involved now. Put your money where your mouth is. Put your body in the frame. [Bridge] Don’t send me sympathy from the far side of the room. Don’t call the damage tragic while protecting the conditions that made it bloom. If you believe in change, interrupt the chain. Ask who started it. Ask who gained. Ask who was paid. Ask who was blamed. And when the answer makes you uncomfortable, don’t hand it back to me. [Breakdown — spoken] You saw the work. You saw the harm. You saw the silence. Now choose. [Final Chorus] No more “someone else will.” No more waiting for a hero. No more loving the idea of justice only when the personal cost is zero. Lift the veil. Open the books. Stand where people can see. If you want the world to change, you don’t get to watch it happen from a safe distance. Put your money where your mouth is. Put your name beside the claim. Someone else is not coming. The someone else is you.
