The Alibi Queen (Explicit)

I am the Alibi Queen

The perfect corporate scene

Their gender-based vaccine

My victory feels unclean

The silence in the room

My triumph is my tomb

The death of our perfume

Your forced"congratulations"

A quiet assassination

Of our shared conversations

I walk the hallway now

They give a little bow

They all know how

I saw the pride flicker in your eyes

Just for a second, before you analyzed

You didn't see your friend, your ally

Your protégé

You saw the statistic that just got in your way

And in that silence

I knew my brand new throne was just a gilded cage

Where I would weep alone

I am the Alibi Queen

The perfect corporate scene

Their gender-based vaccine

My victory feels unclean

I have to be the best

Put my whole soul to the test

I can never rest

If I scream, I'm a bitch

If I yield, there's a hitch

They're waiting for the switch

I have to prove my worth

For all the women on earth

Since my own damn birth

They gave me this job like you'd throw a dog a bone

To appease the mob, to fix their broken tone

I'm the good soldier in a war of PR

The living proof of how progressive they now are

But every single night I have to ask: was it my talent

Or was I just cast?

I am the Alibi Queen

The perfect corporate scene

Their gender-based vaccine

My victory feels unclean

I sign your final pay

I watch you walk away

What am I supposed to say?

I am their perfect shield

The progress they now wield

My spirit is concealed

You think that I have won

You think your time is done

We were both outrun

This system didn't free me

It just found a better way to use me

More clever, day by day

I became a symbol, a poster on the wall

While you became the collateral for their grand fall

They put us both against each other

It's their greatest art

And we both lost the only

Thing that mattered from the start

I am the Alibi Queen

The proof that they have been

Just a lying machine

My victory is obscene