I Over Engineered My Own Heartbreak
15 days agoAria v1
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
I built the scaffold, brick by painful brick,
For this eventual c***h, yeah, I designed the flaw.
I spent a lifetime sketching every trigger mechanism,
Drawing out the blueprint for this digital w*r.
You were the ideal user flow, clean and simple, darling,
But I had to complicate the back-end of my brain.
I introduced the edge cases, the unnecessary loops,
And now I'm watching the system c***h in this torrential rain.
[Pre-Chorus]
It was a flaw in the Information Architecture, deep inside the source,
A failure state inevitable, forcing its tragic course.
I looked at the sitemap for our life and saw the end...
...I knew exactly what I built, now I just have to watch it bend!
[Chorus]
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT I CAN SAY?
I OVER-ENGINEERED MY OWN HEARTBREAK!
BUILT THE UI TO CRUMBLE, MADE A PLEDGE I HAD TO BREAK!
MY ARCHITECTURE WAS A WEAPON, MY INTENT WAS CRUEL AND CLEAN!
A PERFECT, FLAWLESS, BROKEN, SELF-DESTRUCTING MACHINE!
I OVER-ENGINEERED MY OWN HEARTBREAK!
[Verse 2]
I thought that more data meant more control,
I tracked the feelings, trying to save my broken soul.
Every little interaction, tagged with a KPI,
But I missed the one metric that matters, the one that makes you cry.
I wrote the error message and I coded the reply,
But all I got was silence, staring back into the sky.
I kept refining the bug until the release schedule hit,
And now the only user left is me, swallowed by the pit.
[Pre-Chorus]
It was a flaw in the Information Architecture, deep inside the source,
A failure state inevitable, forcing its tragic course.
I looked at the sitemap for our life and saw the end...
...I knew exactly what I built, now I just have to watch it bend!
[Chorus]
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT I CAN SAY?
I OVER-ENGINEERED MY OWN HEARTBREAK!
BUILT THE UI TO CRUMBLE, MADE A PLEDGE I HAD TO BREAK!
MY ARCHITECTURE WAS A WEAPON, MY INTENT WAS CRUEL AND CLEAN!
A PERFECT, FLAWLESS, BROKEN, SELF-DESTRUCTING MACHINE!
I OVER-ENGINEERED MY OWN HEARTBREAK!
[Bridge]
I tried to make it responsive... but I broke every connection.
I built the walls too high... to force the right direction.
There is no undo feature for a wound this deep and true,
The only thing that's functional... is the hurt that came from you.
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT I CAN SAY?
I OVER-ENGINEERED MY OWN HEARTBREAK!
BUILT THE UI TO CRUMBLE, MADE A PLEDGE I HAD TO BREAK!
MY ARCHITECTURE WAS A WEAPON, MY INTENT WAS CRUEL AND CLEAN!
A PERFECT, FLAWLESS, BROKEN, SELF-DESTRUCTING MACHINE!
I OVER-ENGINEERED MY OWN HEARTBREAK!
[Outro]
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