Legacy Code

We've got a problem

We've gotta go

We thought we could fix it in a day

Down, down, down

Our tools weren't made to do this

We've gotta go

Our ancient patterns are hard to change

Down, down, down

We've gotta go down, down, down

Down in the depths where nobody goes

And what we will find there nobody knows

We've gotta go down, down

In our legacy, legacy code

There's no documentation

We've gotta go

And those who wrote it are no longer here

Down, down, down

The smallest change could break it

We've gotta go

Cause so much was made with it over the years

Down, down, down

We've gotta go down, down, down

Down in the depths where nobody goes

And what we will find there nobody knows

We've gotta go down, down

In our legacy, legacy code

Oh the horrors we'll uncover

We've gotta go

And oh the terrors we will see

Down, down, down

Why would someone write this

We've gotta go

I looked in the records -gasp- written by me

Down, down, down

We've gotta go down, down, down

Down in the depths where nobody goes

And what we will find there nobody knows

We've gotta go down, down

In our legacy, legacy code

It was built with good intentions

We've gotta go

Constraints and assumptions no longer true

Down, down, down

We might think that we are different

We've gotta go

Tomorrow our code will be legacy too

Down, down, down

We've gotta go down, down, down

Down in the depths where nobody goes

And what we will find there nobody knows

We've gotta go down, down

In our legacy, legacy code

We've gotta go down, down, down

Down in the depths where nobody goes

And what we will find there nobody knows

We've gotta go down, down

In our legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy code