[Verse 1]
Rego looks like English but it's still machine code
Compliance officers squint at screens, lost on this road
JSON structures and boolean logic reign
While policy documents speak in human refrain
The chasm yawns between what lawyers write
And what developers craft in algorithmic flight
[Chorus]
There's a gap, there's a gap
Between syntax and the rules we map
Technical minds and policy hearts
Living in separate, distant parts
Allow-deny is all we get
When nuance matters, we're in debt
Gap, gap, syntax to policy gap
[Verse 2]
Administrative controls slip through the cracks
Training requirements, governance tracks
Physical badges and camera surveillance
Can't be captured in code's intelligence
Risk appetite lives in boardroom debates
Not in structured data that Rego evaluates
[Chorus]
There's a gap, there's a gap
Between syntax and the rules we map
Technical minds and policy hearts
Living in separate, distant parts
Allow-deny is all we get
When nuance matters, we're in debt
Gap, gap, syntax to policy gap
[Bridge]
Shall and should and may get lost
Binary thinking bears the cost
Deontic richness crushed to bits
Where recommendation never fits
No docs generated from the source
Manual tracing stays the course
[Verse 3]
Qualified professionals assess the scene
But algorithms can't read between
Unstructured context, human judgment calls
While Rego only parses protocol walls
The policy document gathers dust
As JSON validation we trust
[Chorus]
There's a gap, there's a gap
Between syntax and the rules we map
Technical minds and policy hearts
Living in separate, distant parts
Allow-deny is all we get
When nuance matters, we're in debt
Gap, gap, syntax to policy gap
[Outro]
Comments and naming try to bridge
But meaning tumbles off the ridge
Between what humans need to know
And what the formal languages show