lyrics
verse 1
May of twenty-five, a laptop and a name tag
Years inside an office, now I’m starting from the back
The lift to Level Four, my coffee going cold
Thirty tabs of data and I didn’t know what to hold
They said “open Power Query”, I clicked the wrong thing twice
Rows and rows of mess, I just nodded, acting nice
At night the group chat buzzing, “see you all at nine”
I wondered if this door was ever meant to be mine
pre-chorus
But somebody stayed back after class
Showed me one more time, and never made me feel slow
chorus
Block W6, the door swung wide
I walked in a learner, found a road inside
Prompt by prompt and line by line
I learned to ask the right question this time
Republic Poly, you lit the first light
You opened a door, I’m still walking through tonight
verse 2
Power BI on Monday, KNIME on a Thursday screen
A Titanic decision tree, a model with no code to clean
Built a bot on Telegram that answered back at three
Broke it, fixed it, broke it, then it finally talked to me
pre-chorus 2
Every lesson was a stone
And the team behind the scenes made sure I wasn’t alone
Chorus repeats.
bridge
There were days the code said no
Days I almost let it go
But they kept on saying “try it, run it, see”
One more run, and it ran for me
verse 3
Spring came round, a letter, a staff pass with my name
Same campus, other side now, but I’m learning just the same
The dashboards wake at seven, before I reach my desk
Forms find their way to sign-off, the flows can do the rest
At night I make the music, cut the films for those I love
Each week I push a little further, still not near enough
bridge 2 · to the next learner
If you’re standing at that door, feeling worn and feeling down
Like the world moved on without you, like there’s no place left in town
You are not discarded, you are not obsolete
You’re a learner with a new road waiting at your feet
You don’t have to carry all that weight alone so long
There’s a room of people learning, and a place where you belong
Don’t doubt the step you’re taking, don’t give up on the climb
There are people there to catch you, they’ll show you one more time
final chorus
Block W6, the door’s still wide
I came in a learner, now I work inside
Work by day and songs by night
Every limit’s one more line I learn to write
Republic Poly, you lit the first light
You opened a door, I’m still walking through tonight
outro
Just a learner in a room on Level Four
Now I’m holding open that door