Greg,
this one's
for you.

[Instrumental Intro] [Intro - spoken, dry, over walking bass and finger snaps] New ticket. Subject: Greg. Priority: high. Not "come in on your day off" high. But high. [Verse 1] He could just give the order, but he'd rather ask you why One quiet little question and the fog clears from the sky He remembers every project, what we built and what it cost So nothing that we ever learned is ever really lost [Aside - spoken, deadpan] He also remembers who broke it. He's too polite to say. [Chorus - lead asks, group shouts] A week away in summer? (Approved!) A Friday, out of the blue? (Approved!) A song about the boss, with a horn section too? A song about the boss, with a horn section too? (Approved! With one question. But Greg, this one's for you) [Verse 2] He'll sketch you out a plan and say, "Adjust it as you please" Then trust you with production, with remarkable ease He can smell a firewall problem through a wall and down the hall And when the fix arrives, he hands the credit to us all [Aside - spoken, deadpan] Magic happened. Eventually. [Chorus - lead asks, group shouts] A week away in summer? (Approved!) A Friday, out of the blue? (Approved!) A song about the boss, with a horn section too? A song about the boss, with a horn section too? (Approved! With one question. But Greg, this one's for you) [Verse 3] He won't go tilting windmills that can wait another day "That's tomorrow's problem," and tomorrow, it's okay He's got a dry one-liner for the bleakest thread you've read And "please and thank you" after every single thing he's said [Aside - spoken, deadpan] Tomorrow has a lot of problems now. [Bridge - spoken, band vamps quietly] His deployment plans all end the same way. Step one: back it up. Step two: deploy. Step three: test. Step four: celebrate. We tested this song. Nothing seemed broken. So. Step four. [Final Chorus - full band, key change] A slice of cake at midday? (Approved!) A toast from the whole crew? (Approved!) The finest boss we've ever had, we checked, it's true (We compared! It wasn't close! Greg, this one's for you) [Outro - spoken, warm] Ticket resolved. Happy birthday, Greg. It rhymed. Mostly. Ticket resolved. Happy birthday, Greg. It rhymed. Mostly. Please and thank you.