They put my name above the door Before they asked me who I was Twenty years since thirty-two Now I’m the product and the cause Millions in the red, the team walked out I smiled through the interview The thought leader who forgot he was a man Burning down to build the revenue Stone in the mirror where I used to stand They see the founder, they miss the man Built a throne and lost my name Helen’s mirror - I’m just the frame My daughter doesn’t need a thought leader My son doesn’t care about the brand My wife reaches across the silence For someone to take her hand I was a father before I was a category A husband before I was a feed Now my calendar is contraband And presence is the price I bleed Stone in the mirror where I used to stand They see the founder, they miss the man Built a throne and lost my name Helen’s mirror - I’m just the frame I’m the revenue, the strategy The face that launched a thousand clients Who’s counting what it cost me To keep performing through the silence? Stone in the mirror - is that all I am? The founder, the fighter, the vision, the brand? I built a monument to something And lost the man Helen didn’t start the fire They just blamed it on her face Here’s to those who carry What they never should have raised Helen’s mirror holds no Helen Just the roles we learned to play Just the man beneath the marble Finding his way back
