The Board

INSTRUMENTAL INTRO WITH TICKING CLOCK

Verse 1

Through these doors

Behind mahogany and yawns galore

Another deck, another day

Of glazed-over eyes that drift away

(Third presentation, they're all gray)

Board member Bob's checking stocks again

While Susan's typing who-knows-what-or-when

Chairman's nodding, might be sleep

As revenue projections leap

(Wonder if they're counting sheep)

Chorus

The bored, boring board, in their standard form

Perfect postures, interest worn

"Disruptive slides," they've seen before

Watching seconds tick toward the door

Verse 2

"Innovative metrics" make them sigh

Dave's sneaking looks at Delta flights to buy

Jane's mastered that "interested" face

While playing Candy Crush with grace

(Seventh meeting at this place)

The CFO's doodling on his pad

Drawing cartoons of meetings gone mad

While the CTO's caught in a dream

Of less meetings, a smaller team

(Everyone's lost steam)

Bridge

Consultant Carl brings his standard speak

"Synergy, pivot" - same words each week

But no one's listening anymore

They're planning dinner, keeping score

Of buzzwords bingo, played before

As Carl drones on about "The Core"

And "Digital Transformation Phase"

(Same slides, different days)

Verse 3

VP of Sales shows hockey sticks

Board's seen forty just like this

Polite nods all around the room

Another meeting meets its doom

(Death by PowerPoint consumed)

The founder's passion can't break through

The wall of "been there, done that" too

As eyes glaze over, phones light up

Another strategy's served up

(Meeting's running out of luck)

Chorus

The bored, boring board, in their routine way

Fifteen minutes till they say

"Great presentation, time to go"

Without remembering the show

Outro

So here we sit in leather chairs

Pretending someone really cares

About these charts that touch the sky

While dreams of early exits fly

And every slide that passes by

Just makes the boardroom softly sigh

In practiced corporate lullaby

Making difference between truth and corporate lie

(That's the bored room blues we're dying by)

Final Whisper

Next month we'll do it all again

Same room, same time, same corporate zen

Different slides but same old scene

(Wonder if they'll notice if I just show last month's routine...)