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Book: Amp It Up
Hymn 08 · Album V
Read the complete lyrics to “Amp It Up (Bonus Track)” by Josh Chakka from Amp It Up, a Hymns for Entrepreneurs album about Frank Slootman. Listen to the song.
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Amp It Up (Bonus Track) is one chapter in Amp It Up, a musical interpretation centered on Frank Slootman.
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Book: Amp It Up
Lyric sheet
Original lyric sheet / Track 08
From the original lyric sheet for Amp It Up. Wording may differ slightly from the released recording.
Amp It Up! Oh, can you feel the current now? Gotta Amp It Up! The future's here, we won't allow You say you'll get back next week, I hear the hesitation, another brick inside the wall of a slow sedation. I see the rhythm of the place, the casual compliance, a silent pact to never challenge the established science of 'how things are done here.' It's a comfortable disease, I'm the unorthodox physician here to cure you with the breeze of a brand new momentum. A shift you feel inside your soul, the part of you that's tired of givin' up on all your control. This ain't 'bout movin' frantic, this is 'bout a change of state, from waitin' for the future to deciding on your fate. They start to do it differently, they feel a brand new way... They stop thinkin' 'bout a week from now and only see today. This ain't just doin' things faster, man, this ain't a simple trick... This is that get-it-done culture where the mindset finally clicks. Gotta Amp It Up! Oh, can you feel the current now? Gotta Amp It Up! The future's here, we won't allow the pace to ever slow, we let the spirit overflow! Gotta Amp It Up! And watch the whole garden grow! The cadence is infectious, the whole team's metabolism is changing from the inside out, a beautiful schism from the old way of thinkin'. I see the pep in how they walkin', they're more demanding in their emails, even how they're talkin'. This ain't a place for people who just wanna coast along, the energy itself will tell you right where you belong. We had a couple new hires quit, said the intensity was crazy, but the keepers who remained told me that the old way was just lazy. And that's the filter, that's the culture doin' its real job, to find the ones who want the fire, and separate 'em from the mob. They call the pressure unsustainable, a "recipe for burnout"... But I know that inspiration's somethin' you can learn 'bout. The best people are thirsty, they need to feel the mission... The only real terminal disease is a lack of ambition. Gotta Amp It Up! Oh, can you feel the current now? Gotta Amp It Up! The future's here, we won't allow the pace to ever slow, we let the spirit overflow! Gotta Amp It Up! And watch the whole garden grow!
Lyrics © Josh Chakka.