[Verse 1] Picture a castle built room by room No architect's plan, just making space Employment law stacked next to safety rules Benefits forms in every filing case Data privacy mixed with training logs Information security somehow yours You didn't design this tangled maze But here you stand behind these doors [Chorus] Accretion not design, that's the HR story Compliance piled high like sediment layers What you inherited carries hidden burdens Built by default, not expertise bearers Accretion not design, remember this truth When the weight feels heavy on your shoulders You're managing fragments of other departments That landed here as the company got older [Verse 2] Regulatory reports that should live in finance Workplace safety that engineering owns Training delivery from learning and development Data security that IT disowns Each piece arrived when someone said "HR handles people, people do this work" So compliance snowballed on your desk While other teams could dodge and shirk [Chorus] Accretion not design, that's the HR story Compliance piled high like sediment layers What you inherited carries hidden burdens Built by default, not expertise bearers Accretion not design, remember this truth When the weight feels heavy on your shoulders You're managing fragments of other departments That landed here as the company got older [Bridge] Modern HR sits on portfolios vast Employment law your solid foundation But benefits admin and workplace safety Arrived through organizational migration The burden's real, the work still matters But knowing why helps you navigate Between true HR core and borrowed duties That history helped accumulate [Outro] Accretion not design Built by default, not expertise alignment Accretion not design That's your starting line
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