Burn the Boardroom

“Burn the Boardroom”

(Samurai — Rock/Punk, Johnny Silverhand style)

Verse 1

Ten years polishing chrome on their tower

Sold my soul by the hour by the hour

Badge said loyalty, contract said forever

Cut me loose on a Tuesday — real clever

Security walked me out like I was garbage

Fifteen years and a cardboard box of nothing

No pension, no thanks, just a corpo smile

“It’s just business” — yeah, run that trial

Pre-Chorus

Well I stopped countin’ favors, stopped countin’ loss

Time to make ‘em remember who’s the boss

I built your empire with my two hands

Now watch me burn it down to sand

Chorus

This is for the fired, this is for the used

This is for the ones the system chewed and bruised

I’m the glitch in your machine, the ghost you can’t erase

Gonna tear the boardroom down, gonna burn the whole damn place

Burn the boardroom! Burn it all tonight!

You made a soldier when you stole my life

Verse 2

Watch ‘em scramble in their glass and titanium halls

Same suits, same lies hangin’ on the walls

“Restructuring” — that’s the word they used

Corpo speak for “you’re the one we lose”

I gave ‘em my youth, gave ‘em my name

Now I’m giving back nothing but flame

No badge, no clearance, don’t need it no more

I’m coming up the elevator, kicking down the door

Pre-Chorus

Well I stopped countin’ favors, stopped countin’ loss

Time to make ‘em remember who’s the boss

I built your empire with my two hands

Now watch me burn it down to sand

Chorus

This is for the fired, this is for the used

This is for the ones the system chewed and bruised

I’m the glitch in your machine, the ghost you can’t erase

Gonna tear the boardroom down, gonna burn the whole damn place

Burn the boardroom! Burn it all tonight!

You made a soldier when you stole my life

Bridge (stripped, just guitar and Johnny’s growl)

You thought a severance package

Was gonna shut me up and go quiet

Nah — you handed a match

To a man with nothin’ left to lose but the fire

You want loyalty? Buy it.

You want silence? Try it.

I’m done playin’ along

The whole rotten system’s writing its own eulogy song

Final Chorus (all-out, distorted, anthemic)

This is for the fired, this is for the used

This is for every dream your greed abused

I’m the glitch in your machine, the ghost you can’t erase

Watch the boardroom burn, watch ‘em run to save face

BURN THE BOARDROOM! Let the ashes fly!

Should’ve never fired a man with nothin’ left to lose — no goodbye

Outro (feedback, one last spoken line)

Yeah… that’s what happens

When you build the monster

And then hand it the keys.