[Verse 1]
Before the world stopped turning, we thought we had it right
Every worker in the office, from morning until night
We never asked the question, what happens if they can't
Come to the building tomorrow, we just said remote won't grant
The culture that we wanted, the collaboration flow
But we never ran the numbers on the risks we didn't know
[Chorus]
What we accepted without thinking
What we assumed would never break
Single points of failure sinking
Ships we thought were built to take
Any storm that came our way
But black swans don't ask to stay
We accepted, we accepted
What we never should have taken
[Verse 2]
All our supply chains flowing from one geography
China makes our products, seemed like efficiency
Russia powers Europe, Ukraine feeds the world
Taiwan makes the chips that keep our tech unfurled
We optimized for cost savings, never stopped to see
What happens when one region becomes our enemy
[Chorus]
What we accepted without thinking
What we assumed would never break
Single points of failure sinking
Ships we thought were built to take
Any storm that came our way
But black swans don't ask to stay
We accepted, we accepted
What we never should have taken
[Bridge]
Turkish lira falling fifty percent or more
We planned for ten to fifteen, got shown the door
Argentine peso crashing, our models were wrong
Currency risk acceptance, we sang the same song
Called it cost of business, never characterized
The tail end scenarios that left us surprised
[Verse 3]
These weren't formal decisions written in our plans
They evolved from optimization by procurement hands
Risk governance was sleeping while concentration grew
Until the black swan landed and our assumptions flew
Uninformed acceptance of what we couldn't see
Now we know the price of false security
[Chorus]
What we accepted without thinking
What we assumed would never break
Single points of failure sinking
Ships we thought were built to take
Any storm that came our way
But black swans don't ask to stay
We accepted, we accepted
What we never should have taken
[Outro]
Now we know to question every single point
Before acceptance breaks us at the joint
Characterize the risk before you choose
Or black swan events will make you lose