You Built This Guillotine
You stacked every rule in your favor
wrote policies out of my hide while you clapped yourself for being fair and tough and sharp
Fired people for things you did twice as hard last week and laughed that they should have known how to read your mind
Every cut you made to save yourself shredded a little more of my faith until trusting you felt like hugging barbed wire tight
Now the blade you hoisted over everyone else has slipped from its gears and hangs low in our sight.
You loved preaching about consequences while ignoring your own
Loved pointing fingers whenever something cracked
steering blame into my zone
You stitched your whole image out of other folks’ wreckage
stood on bones and called it grit
That pile is shifting, those jaws are waking
every lie you stacked is starting to split.
You always said “that is just how it works, ” Shrugged
smirked, walked on by
Now the same cold shrug looks back at you With metal in its eye.
You built this guillotine
raised it high on everyone’s backs
Greased the ropes with their broken trust and laughed through all the cracks
If I go down screaming
you go down right next to me in this machine
We fall together under the teeth of the thing you kept so clean.
I watched you sign my fate with a bored little flourish
send me under while you checked your messages with one hand
Talked about loyalty in staff meetings while carving me out behind closed doors like I was just dead weight for your band
You told yourself I would just vanish
that I would fold
that I would not drag your record through this flood
You forgot I know where every body is buried
who dug the holes, who wiped off the mud.
No appeals, no spin
no last-minute script rewrite to dodge this fall
Every witness you burned has a story and I am dialing them all
You wanted my silence, now you get my roar
We walk up these steps together
boots on the same cold floor.
You built this guillotine
raised it high on everyone’s backs
Greased the ropes with their broken trust and laughed through all the cracks
If I go down screaming
you go down right next to me in this machine
We fall together under the teeth of the thing you kept so clean.
You always loved that sharp edge
said it kept people in line
Feel it kiss your throat now
Tell me if you still think it is fine.