[Verse 1] The manager sits high above the floor Needs to see what every team is for Charts and graphs upon the wall Making sense of it all But down below the work gets done In ways that can't be seen by anyone Complex tasks and shifting ground Real solutions can't be found in numbers [Chorus] Legibility, make it clean and bright Put it in a box so it reads just right Three objectives, numbers that we chase But we're losing something in this race Legibility, from the top it's clear But the messy truth just disappears What works down here gets lost up there In the legible air [Verse 2] Marketing's got relationship goals Building trust in hearts and souls But the OKR demands a score Engagement rates and nothing more Engineering solves the hardest bugs User experience needs and hugs Force it into metrics neat Makes the real work incomplete [Chorus] Legibility, make it clean and bright Put it in a box so it reads just right Three objectives, numbers that we chase But we're losing something in this race Legibility, from the top it's clear But the messy truth just disappears What works down here gets lost up there In the legible air [Bridge] Scott warned us long ago States must make the chaos show Standardized and simplified Context pushed aside Organizations do the same Turn the complex into plain Readable from high above But lose the ground floor love [Verse 3] Customer success knows every name Every story's not the same But quarterly reviews demand Three objectives, understand? The nuance that made priorities right Gets filtered out to make them bright Legible yes, but at what cost? The wisdom of the ground gets lost [Chorus] Legibility, make it clean and bright Put it in a box so it reads just right Three objectives, numbers that we chase But we're losing something in this race Legibility, from the top it's clear But the messy truth just disappears What works down here gets lost up there In the legible air [Outro] From above it all makes sense But pay attention to the consequence What makes work visible and clean Might not serve what's really seen On the ground where work gets done Legibility's just begun
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