Goes Up to Eleven

TTTO “Hacker’s Heaven” by Steve Savtizky

When you’re starting up a rock band, there are two ways to proceed

Take the time to write good lyrics, or go flat out for speed

If we let them hear our lyrics, we will never win the race

So let’s get some scary speakers and make sure we got good bass

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Let the speakers launch you backwards as we loose a scary yell

And you’re blasting all the people with a billion watts from hell

Let the others speak of safety, let the other bands be shy

This one goes to up eleven, don’t ask why

Ten-thousand watt speakers – there’s a reason they are banned

But when you’re in a hurry, you will blast them when you can

Use a simple chord progression (or just two chords if you dare)

It may not sound much like music, but just ask me if I care

[Chorus]

And when we get to stardom, we will rock around the clock

With out of tune guitars, but it’s close enough for rock

It would take too long to tune them, so we might as well not try

Besides who wants to wait when it’s time to do or die

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We will get ourselves some roadies, we will start a brand new craze

It will be our 15 minutes, though we know it’s just a phase

Let the parents of our fans make sure that they stay in bed

We’ll be acting out our dreams as the ears of fans we shred

[Chorus]