[Verse 1] Katie Zacharia steps up Monday, badge still shiny and new, by Friday the briefing room's empty, nobody waving her through. Five days total, that's the tenure, blink and you'd miss the run, Reuters callin' it "ousted," NBC sayin' she's done. Critics stacked up quicker than dishes in a diner sink, pressure comin' from every angle, no room left to think. [Chorus] Cinque giorni, poi via, via, la Casa Bianca manda via Katie, troppo presto, fugacious and gone, qui oggi, domani — the moment's withdrawn. [Verse 2] NYT drops a question mark nobody saw comin', "Is she a lawyer?" got the whole beltway hummin'. A press sec usually knows the statutes, knows the game, but the paper trail on Zacharia ain't addin' up the same. Fugacious — that's the word for somethin' quick to fade, her whole run in that chair was a shadow, not a blade. CBC and Radio-Canada both ran it bilingual, the Guardian callin' it blunt — "fired," no sugar, no residual. [Chorus] Cinque giorni, poi via, via, la Casa Bianca manda via Katie, troppo presto, fugacious and gone, qui oggi, domani — the moment's withdrawn. [Verse 3] Meanwhile a quieter story, no shouting, no press scrum, a report on the Eisenhower Building, paint cans stayin' numb. They say slap on new color, it'll diminish what's there, the patina of history needs open air, not a dare. Preservationists sighin', "Leave the old stone be," the White House complex keepin' its sepia pedigree. [Verse 4] Somewhere a staffer's scrollin', readin' the same three lines, wonderin' how five days ran out, wonderin' about the signs. Was it a vetting failure, a title stretched too far, or just the churn of a building that forgets who you are? The podium don't care about your résumé or your name, it chews through faces weekly, keeps playin' the same game. And the old limestone walls outside just watch it all unfold, they've seen a hundred Katies, seen the new replace the old. No scandal screamed in headlines, no villain in this tale, just Washington's quick current, where even seasons fail. [Bridge] One week, one coat of paint, both stories kinda rhyme, somethin' fresh gets questioned when it messes with the time. Zacharia's clock ran short, the building wants to stay, change comes knockin' different in Washington today. [Chorus] Cinque giorni, poi via, via, la Casa Bianca manda via Katie, troppo presto, fugacious and gone, qui oggi, domani — the moment's withdrawn. [Outro] That's the wire for the seventeenth, calm beat, clear report — Zacharia's out, the paint stays off, that's the whole report. [Chorus] Cinque giorni, poi via, via, la Casa Bianca manda via Katie, troppo presto, fugacious and gone, qui oggi, domani — the moment's withdrawn.
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