[Verse 1]
She came in swinging before the room could speak,
A firstborn voice that the world tried to make meek,
At the top of her own table, she drafted her name,
But the gavel kept asking if she'd earned the acclaim,
She ran her own ledger, checked the columns twice,
Still wondered if ambition was a virtue or a vice

[PreChorus]
But every draft she discarded taught her how to revise,
And the work she did in the dark was the work that made her rise

[Chorus]
Bertina, you built it board by board, nail by nail,
You didn't ask permission when they called you too bold to prevail,
Your voice is the one in the boardroom nobody can fake,
Bertina, everything you've made was yours to make

[Verse 2]
She keeps her friendships like a small, ironclad crew,
Three people at the table, and every one is true,
Her mind runs six conversations before the first is done,
She's already solved the problem while you're still loading the gun,
But she carries every alliance like a contract she must keep,
While her own needs file themselves in a drawer she never reads

[PreChorus]
The clause she keeps forgetting is the one that bears her name,
The deal she never closes is the one where she's the aim

[Chorus]
Bertina, the blueprint was always drawn in your hand,
You charmed your way through the corridor and then rerouted the plan,
There's a version of the future built on what only you know,
Bertina, light the torch and let the whole thing glow

[Verse 3]
The house she came from had its walls rearranged,
The furniture of childhood often got exchanged,
So she learned to carry home inside her own chest,
To keep it portable, keep it fortified, keep it compressed,
But a house packed that tight starts knocking at the seams,
And the Aquarius moon is full enough to flood her dreams

[PreChorus]
The fullness that's rising isn't asking her to hide,
It's telling her the table's big enough to sit inside

[Chorus]
Bertina, the full moon doesn't knock, it just reveals,
It finds the uncashed invoice and exposes what is real,
You've organized the futures of a dozen other days,
Bertina, now let one of them be yours to raise

[Bridge]
She sharpened every argument before she let it fly,
Rewound the same three sentences and wondered if they'd buy,
The ancestor who handed her the pattern and the scar
Also handed her the fire she's been running with this far

[Outro]
Bertina, the ledger's balanced, put the pen down now,
Every column you've been carrying has already shown you how