[Intro – Steady Pulse, Clean Guitar Picking]
You stacked the odds, rolled the dice
Told yourself it would suffice
Every caution pushed aside
Riding hard on reckless pride
[Verse 1]
Every chip across the line
Every risk you called as mine
No retreat and no delay
Burning every bridge away
Eyes ahead, you couldn’t see
What it cost eventually
Every win just fed the flame
Till you couldn’t leave the game
[Pre-Chorus]
When the door you close is every door behind
You don’t lose—you just run out of time
[Chorus]
You went all in
(Without an out)
No doubt…
(Nowhere to begin)
Every loss comes crashing in
(Underneath your skin)
You went all in
(Without an out)
[Verse 2 – Drums + Bass Enter]
Every warning left unread
Every “maybe” pushed to “said”
All the lines you crossed too fast
Turned the future to the past
Now you’re standing in the smoke
Of every promise that you broke
Trying just to understand
How it slipped right through your hands
[Pre-Chorus]
If the path you chose erased the way back home
Then you built this place of standing here alone
[Chorus]
You went all in
(Without an out)
No doubt…
(Nowhere to begin)
Every echo wearing thin
(Spinning deep within)
You went all in
(Without an out)
[Refrain]
Champ,
Where’s your offramp
(Up to your ears in fears)
Start a war
Now there’s only more
(More, more, more)
[Bridge – Breakdown, Piano + Ambient Swell]
No pause, no reset line
No rewind, no “one more time”
Just the weight of what you chose
And the truth that slowly grows
Not a hero, not a loss
Just a ledger of the cost
Every answer you denied
Now is standing by your side
[Build – Rising Drums, Guitar Swells]
If there’s no way out ahead
Then you face it all instead
Not by fighting one more round
But by laying weapons down
[Final Chorus – Full, Intense]
You went all in
(Without an out)
No doubt…
(Nowhere to begin)
But you won’t keep doubling down
(On this battleground)
You went all in
(Now you’re turning ‘round)
[Final Refrain – Layered Vocals]
Champ,
Found a new ramp
(Climbing out of fears)
End the war
No need for more
(No more, no more)
[Outro – Soft Guitar, Fading Pulse]
All in…
Was the wrong way to begin…
[Silence]
From the album “Exit Strategy“